Item sets

• Beijing Silvermine / Thomas Sauvin Archive
  A large corpus of vernacular prints, negatives, albums and objects that covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
• Mission Pelliot Archive
  An expedition under the guidance of the French scholar Paul Pelliot conducted between 1906 and 1908, which gave the opportunity to one of its participants – Charles Nouette – to constitute a comprehensive archive of photographs. Several public institutions are holding materials from this archive.
• Jules Itier Archive
  Taken originally in 1844, Jules Itier's daguerreotypes are part of the earliest surviving body of photographic materials of China.
• Louis-Philippe Messelier Archive
  Louis-Philippe Messelier was a French journalist engaged in the business of wool during the 1930s. Based in the French concession of Shanghai, his photographs depicted the rapid changes occurring in Republican China.
• John Thomson Archive
  John Thomson was a Scottish photographer who travelled extensively across Asia in the 1870s. Several public institutions are holding his works.
• Firmin Laribe Archive
  Firmin Laribe was a French military officer active in Beijing around the years 1904 and 1910. His archive encompasses over four hundred gelatin silver prints, notebooks and albums amongst other documents.
• Auguste François Archive
  Auguste François was a French Consul in China between 1896 and 1904. As a diplomat and amateur photographer, he compiled an archive composed of around three thousand glass plates and photographic prints with detailed captions.
• Dominique Darbois Archive
  Dominique Darbois was a female professional photographer who travelled to China in the late 1950s. She captured daily life in cities while accompanying an archaeological expedition that led her to photograph the Maijishan Grottoes in Gansu province as well as the Gobi Desert.
• White Villa Collection
  A private collection comprised exclusively of Chinese contemporary photographs. Initiated in 1999, it gathers significant artists that have impacted on the history of contemporary photography in China since the 1980s onwards.
• Mission Citroën Archive
  The Mission Citröen - also called La Croisière Jaune - was organised by the French car company André Citroën and aimed to drive across the Asian continent in the 1930s. This mission left an extensive photographic archive currently held at the Centre d’archives de Terre Blanche.
• Fonds Bontemps
  This archive encompasses 400 still images and 23 silent films originally taken by André Bontemps, a deputy army judge who lived in the French Concession in Tianjin from 1931 to 1935.
• Albert Gervais Archive
  Jen-I-Kouan – aka Albert Gervais – was a French Doctor who lived in Western China between 1919 and 1925. This private archive unveils this person’s memory through his photographic archives, texts and other documents.
• Yang Tche Chen Archive
  Yang Tche Chen was a Chinese student-worker who travelled to France in the 1920s thanks to the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement. This private archive provides a variety of printed documents, including old photographs taken both in China and France.
• Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard Archive
  Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard was a French Sinologist sent to Beijing between 1934 and 1939 to catalogue the French collection at the Department of Foreign Collections at the Beijing National Library. On that occasion, she took over 1000 photographs across China.
• Musée d'Orsay Collection
  The Museum mainly holds late nineteenth century and early twentieth century anonymous photographs and stereoscopics from various private collections. The online catalogue also includes also photographs by John Thomson, Paul Champion, Adolphe De Meyer, and Gustave Popelin.
• Louis Finot Collection
  Louis Finot (1864-1935) was a French archaeologist and researcher, specialising in the cultures of Southeast Asia. He was one of the former directors of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient [EFEO, The French School of the Far East] and left some 2770 glass plates to this research centre.
• Musée Cernuschi Collection
  The Cernuschi Museum in Paris is one of the very few French institutions specializing in Asian art. Its collection encompasses ancient and modern art works, alongside a lesser-known photographic archives held at its Library, such as 1) the Victor Goloubew collection, 2) the Comte de Polignac collection, and 3) Documentary resources: Archaeological excavations - China.