Item sets

• Jules Itier Archive
  Taken originally in 1844, Jules Itier's daguerreotypes are part of the earliest surviving body of photographic materials of 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.
• 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.