Min Chin with a camera, Northern Hot Springs, 1940
Collection
Identifier
Fu01-025
Copyright
© Fu Bingchang
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Fu01-025. Picture taken at Northern Hot Springs on 12th February 1940. See Fu-n258 (the negative). See also Fu04-005. Min Chin is holding a Voigtländer 'Superb' camera, probably owned by Fu. This twin lens reflex camera, with a unique parallax correction device, was made by Voigtländer and Sohn (Braunschweig). It used 120 film, making negatives 2.25 inches (57mm) square. The camera was introduced in 1933. Northern Hot Springs Park (Pei-wan-chuan Park, Beiquan), near Pei-pai (Beibei), 30km north of Chungking (Chongqing). See also Fu-n258 (the negative), Fu-n296, Fu02-051 and Fu04-005.
Caption in album or on mount
閔勤在北泉 12-2-40
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Location
Date
Monday 12 February 1940
Photographer
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
Repository
Collection of C. H. Foo and Y. W. Foo
