Ten-year-old with three-months-old sister from the "Chinese Album"

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Ten-year-old with three-months-old sister from the "Chinese Album"
Ten-year-old with three-months-old sister from the "Chinese Album"
Artist/Maker (British, 1904 - 1980)
Date1944, published 1945
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 8 1/4 in. × 8 in. (21 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of David A. Garfinkel, Class of 1978
Object number1983.111
Not on view
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Provenance 1983: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of David A. Garfinkel.
Markings Stamp: "CECIL BEATON / PHOTOGRAPH" on verso at lower center.
Signature Not signed.
Inscribed "BE503" on verso at lower right in pencil; "IB. 2538 / C. BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH (MINISTRY OF / INFORMATION) CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED.; CHINESE BABY. / PICTURE SHOW: - [underlined] Chinese girl, aged 10, with baby / sister aged three months. Picture taken in a street / at CHENGTU. Sze-chwan Province, China." on verso at lower center in typeset.
Mr. Chow Chung-Yuch, Chinese Scholar from Yunan Province from the "Chinese Album"
Mr. Chow Chung-Yuch, Chinese Scholar from Yunan Province from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944, published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.114
Character of the Chinese theater (portrait of Swen Fu-juin) from the "Chinese Album"
Character of the Chinese theater (portrait of Swen Fu-juin) from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944, published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.115
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In the Children's Ward of a Canadian Mission Hospital from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944 (published 1945)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.110
Chinese Mask
Chinese Mask
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944; published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.113
Photograph by John Bentham.
Police Force
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944; published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.15
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Louis-Mann Fight Pictures
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1938
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.16
General Tsou Chu-Hua, Governor of Kirin
General Tsou Chu-Hua, Governor of Kirin
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944; published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.112
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Bill Owens
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on tracing paper
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