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Post by helen on Jun 1, 2017 4:42:13 GMT -5
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Over 5,000 photographs, primarily of China, 1908-1932. library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gamble/New Collection Addition: Sidney D. Gamble’s Hand-Colored Lantern Slides MAY 27, 2014MOLLY BRAGG I started working on the metadata of Sidney D. Gamble photographs in January 2008 on a spreadsheet with no matching images. The nitrate negatives from the collection had just been digitized and resided in a different location. I was, however still amazed by the richness of the content as I tried very hard to figure out the locations of each picture, half of them were so challenging that I must have guessed wrong for most of them in my struggle to meet the project deadline. It was after the digital collection was published that I started to study more thoroughly these images of Chinese life more than 100 years ago. And they have since then continued to amaze me as I understand more of their content and context with the various projects I’ve done; and to puzzle me as I dig deeper into their historical backgrounds. I’ve imagined China in those times in readings, enhanced by films early and recent, yet Gamble’s photographs help me to get closer to what life really looked like and how similar or different things appeared. Recently the hand-colored lantern slides in the collection have made me feel even more so. blogs.library.duke.edu/bitstreams/2014/05/27/new-collection-addition-sydney-d-gambles-hand-colored-lantern-slides/
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