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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
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12 Nov 2008
3star
Colonial Pictorial Works Taiwan Image Collection
Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US
As of Nov 2008 the site was under construction and consisted of a collection of 59 sepia photographs from Taiwan from the period 1933-1938. They are digitized images from a book with the following metadata - Title.English: Taiwan, Title.Japanese: Taiwan no fuko, Format.Medium: Printed pictorial book, Creator.Maker: Yamazaki, Kinichiro, editor, Creator.Company: Publisher unknown, Wakayama Prefecture, Date.Original: circa 1939.
The first fifteen of the images are: [nf0006] The Pier of Kiirun [Jilong] Harbour; [nf0007] The Kiirun [Jilong] Station; [nf0008] The Monument at Courbet-Seashore; [nf0009] The Government Formosa; [nf0010] The Taiwan Shrine; [nf0011] Prosperous Street, Taihoku; [nf0012] Taiwan Kenko Shrine; [nf0013] The Taihoku Park; [nf0014] The Three Line Street; [nf0015] The Taihoku Bridge; [nf0016] The Meiji Bridge; [nf0017] The Chinese Temple; [nf0018] The Public Bath, The Hot Springs of Sozan; [nf0019] The Harbour of Tansui and the Golf-Rinks [sic]; [nf0020] The Hot-Springs of Hokuto, and the Hot-Water Falls.
[The Colonial Pictorial Works - Taiwan Image Collection is now listed in the online index of "Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html - ed.]
URL http://imago.lafayette.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcpw
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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