Among the very cool history resources available on the web are the online exhibitions of historical photographs. An increasing number of museums, universities, archives, and private collections are putting old photographs on the Internet, and as I hear about these through listservs and other means I’ll post the links here.
The first for today is a new online collection of Xinhua News photographs from the Cultural Revolution era. Compiled by Thomas Hahn, these arresting photographs fill a necessary gap in our visual history of China’s 20th century.
Two other online exhibtions feature photographs from colonial Taiwan.
The Gerald Warner collection hosted by Lafayette College contains 340 photographs and postcards gathered between 1937 and 1941 by Warner, a US consul on the island. Most striking about this collection is the diversity captured, “a snapshot of Taiwan’s hybrid culture of Chinese, Taiwanese, Austronesian, and Japanese influences.”
Finally, another collection on colonial Taiwan, also hosted by Lafayette, contains 59 sepia photographs from Taiwan from the period 1933-1938 digitized from a Japanese book edited by Yamaki Kinichiro.
Enjoy.
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h/t H-Asia