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.
• Solange Brand Archive
  Solange Brand worked as a secretary at the French embassy secretary in Beijing from 1965 to 1968, during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). She recorded and captured her immediate surroundings thanks to a camera acquired in Hong Kong.
• 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.
• 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.
• Private Archive of the 1970s
  Catherine and Olivier de B. were brother and sister and two amateurs photographers who stayed three weeks in China between July and August 1971. They compiled an archive of over a hundred still images as well as moving images.
• 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.
• 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.
• Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896-1920
  Based on the private collection of scholar Régine Thiriez, this database primarily focuses on early postcards of China. It was created in collaboration with Gérald Foliot, scholar and System Administrator.
• Private archive of the 1980s
  A private archive that encompasses photographs (color slides), negatives, audio recordings, and manuscripts amongst other documents, all taken in China during the 1980’s.
• 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.
• 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.