Oliver Heywood Hulme with Chinese servants and dead pheasants, near Anqing, 1916
Collection
Identifier
OH03-070
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: OH03-070. This photograph published in Robert Bickers, 'China Through the Colonial Lens', History Today (October 2011), 37. Born in Manchester in 1882, Oliver Heywood Hulme was briefly employed by the Chinese Maritime Customs Service from 1905 to 1906 before moving to Chinese Imperial Post Office. He served in post offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Taiyuan, Nanjing, Anqing and Wuhan before being transferred back to Beijing and appointed secretary of the Chinese post office’s audit department.
Caption in album or on mount
1916 Anking
