Lolo villagers dancing

Collection

Identifier

FC01-22

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Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: FC01-22. Note in the album: "Fred. W. Carey, HM Customs, China. Stratford-sub-Castle, Salisbury, Eng. The photos in this book are enlargements of snapshots taken by me during the period 1896 – 1902 inclusive, whilst I was stationed at Szemao in the province of Yunnan. Some of them were obtained on my journey homeward, through the Shan States, Burma, and India. F.W.C." Frederic William Carey served in the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1891-1928. A set of Carey's lantern slides entitled 'Yunnan' is in the collection of the Royal Geographical Society. Carey (then Commissioner of Customs) gave a lantern slide lecture in Ningpo (Ningbo) on 9 February 1922, on ‘Native Life on the Burma-Yunnan Frontier’. This photograph may have been taken in Burma (Myanmar). See also FC01-10.

Caption in album or on mount

Lolos of the Hsiang tan tribe in the market at I Mu

Estimated Date

1896-1902

Photographer

Carey, Frederic William

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph