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17 Sep 2008
Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description:
"This document [est. Sep 2008] is a part of Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html] and Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html]. It keeps track of leading on-line collections of still images of value/significance to researchers in Asian and Pacific Studies. Please mail tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au if you know of relevant information resource not in this list."
Site contents [in Sep 2008]:
* Afganistan Old Photos;
* Asian Historical Architecture;
* Bond Photograph Library;
* Cambodian Genocide Program - Photographs;
* China: Exploring the Interior, 1903-1904;
* Digital Himalaya Project;
* Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965;
* Four Months of War, Shanghai 1937;
* Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) - Photographic Archives;
* Historic Camel Photos - China, Mongolia, India, Central Asia, Russia, Middle East;
* Historical Photographs of China;
* Historical Photos of Central Asia - Images of Life in Central Asia;
* Indonesia independent - Photographs 1947-1953;
* Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period;
* Keagle Photograph Library;
* Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service;
* Micronesia Over the Years;
* Moluccan History and Culture in Pictures;
* Pakistan: Historic Karachi;
* Photos of Tibet in the early 1940's;
* Pictures from Tibet;
* Pioneer Photography from the [19th c.] Dutch Indies;
* RAWA Photo Gallery: Afghanistan from 1992-2008;
* SouthEast Asian images & Texts;
* Svadesh videsh - Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections;
* The Cities/Buildings Database;
* The Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860-1940;
* The East Asian [Digital] Collection;
* The French Institute of Pondichery (IFP) - Photo Archives;
* The Gertrude Bell Project;
* The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 - Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection;
* The Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD) Photos;
* The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946;
* The Islamic Gallery: Photos and Artwork;
* The Nanking Atrocities (Online Documentary);
* The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China;
* The Virtual Museum of Cham Architecture, Vietnam;
* Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images - Contemporary Transformations of China;
* Thomas, G.H - An American in China: 1936-1939;
* Turkestanskii Al'bom (Photo Album of 19th Century Russian Turkistan);
* Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921-1925;
* [The Dutch East Indies in] Colonial World Fairs.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html
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)
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