22 Apr 2004

China: Exploring the Interior,1903-1904
www.chinaexhibit.org, Sargentville, ME, USA
Sel-description: "CHINA: Exploring the Interior,1903-1904 is a travelling exhibit produced in association with the Chinese Room of the Newport (R.I.) Public Library and the Maine Humanities Council. In 1903, R. Harvey Sargent, a topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey, joined a Carnegie Institution research mission that took him 1,800 miles across the vast interior of China. Along the way, Sargent documented his observations with photographs of the land and the peasants from which the Chinese Revolution was to come. The core of this exhibit consists of 75 of these original photographs, which have been enlarged and reproduced to museum standards. Also included in the exhibit are the published findings of the geological mission, Sargent's journal, a map of the expedition, and other memorabilia."
Supplied note: "The curator of the exhibit [Robert M. Sargent] is the grandson of the photographer, who snapped the photos while on a Carnegie Institution expedition for which he served as topographer - cr."
Site contents: Contact; About the Exhibit; [eleven B&W] Photographs; Exhibit Itinerary [1994 - present]; Guest Book.
URL http://www.chinaexhibit.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.chinaexhibit.org
Link reported by: Cynthia Reilly for Robert M. Sargent (sargent[use"@"]prexar.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ Documents
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