Sacred monastery, Wutai, Shansi. Photographer: William Purdom
Scope & Content:
Modern contact print from original glass negative (for which, see Neg 1190/1 (19)). View from an elevated position, looking across the rooftops to a white chorten (stupa). With additional note pencilled on negative envelope: White chorton, i.e. ward of [sic] evil influence sometimes contains ash...
Lake scene, palace grounds, Jehol [Chengde]. Photographer: William Purdom
Scope & Content:
Modern contact print from original glass negative (for which, see Neg 1190/1 (1)). View looking towards lake and waterside pavilions. With additional note pencilled on negative envelope: Sacred lotus flowers growing in lake in foreground. Note cigar shaped rock. Hills. The cigar-shaped rock refe...
Scene in palace grounds, Jehol [Chengde]. Photographer: William Purdom
Scope & Content:
Modern contact print from original glass negative (for which, see Neg 1190/1 (2)). View looking along the lake towards buildings. Another print from this negative can be found in the Purdom Papers in the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University (call number 2911), there dated 12 May 1909.
Woman in Weichang, goitred throat. Photographer: William Purdom
Scope & Content:
Modern contact print from original glass negative (for which, see Neg 1190/1 (14)). Portrait of a Chinese woman with a large goitre hanging from her throat, standing in the doorway of a thatched mud house. See also print 15, taken on the same occasion.