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.
• Stéphane Passet Archive
  Stéphane Passet took Autochromes in China in 1912 and 1913. He was an appointed operator on behalf of the "Archives de la Planète" [Archives of the Planet].
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.