Postings of vintage photos from the mid 1800s through World War II. Most are lightly edited.
Showing posts with label Hedda Morrison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hedda Morrison. Show all posts
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015
Hedda Morrison
I have previously posted Ms. Morrison's photographs of China. Here is the first of several sets that appear to be from Indonesia (she spent some time working in Sarawak).
Family eating
Four men; two men dancing
Longhouse
Man making fish trap; two children watching
Man playing sapo stringed instrument
Married couple being blessed in front of textiles
Friday, March 28, 2014
Hedda Morrison
Two women, Nanking
Typical food market with fresh produce vendors and fixed stalls,
Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
View of beach with a few anchored sampans close to shore,
Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, 19446-47
Woman guides her bullock-drawn plough across
a harvested paddy-field, Hong Kong, 1946-47
Woman seated on the ground sorting produce,
Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Woman with a child sorting firewood, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Woman with pile of burlap, Nanking
Women laborers shifting building sand with Victoria Harbour
in the background, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Workers in a mixed goods store, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1946-47
Young boy minds his siblings, Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Young girl on the beach, wearing a tunic and a straw hat,
carries her brother on her back, Hong Kong, 1946-47
Young mother carrying a child on her back
in the market, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Monday, February 10, 2014
Hedda Morrison
Street vendor
Street cooking, Nanking
Street market in Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, 1946-47
Street scene, Nanking
Street scene, Nanking
Street scene, Nanking
Street scene, Nanking
Street vendor with brooms
Terraced balconies with wrought-iron railings above shophouses,
Western District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Three Hakka women carrying backets suspended from long poles
across their shoulders, Hong Kong, 1946-47
Two girls in a small boat
Two girls with a basket of fish, Nanking
Two Tanka women rowing in a sampan, Hong Kong, 1946-47
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Hedda Morrison
Peasant woman, vicinity of Nanking
Peasants drying rice in the lowlands, New Territories, Hong Kong, 1946-47
People with camels
Planting rice, vicinity of Nanking
Produce vendors, Nanking
Rooftops, Nanking
Sampans in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Seated man amid baskets of fish and hanging dried fish,
Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Seated woman selling bundles of incense in the
Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Shopkeeper attends to a customer, Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Shrimp paste spread out on large, circular receptacles, Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, 1946-47
Some kind of farm work, vicinity of Nanking
[anyone know what these people are doing?]
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Hedda Morrison
Landscape with tree
Making noodles, Nanking
Man handing a child a plate of food on a cargo junk,
Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Man preparing cooked food, Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Man spinning? Nanking
Man with camels
[camels really do give the best "derp" faces, don't they?]
[camels really do give the best "derp" faces, don't they?]
Man with child sitting in a junk amid baskets
in Aberdeen harbor, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
Market stalls
Mother and child on watercraft, Nanking
Mother and child, Nanking
Old man in doorway, Nanking
Painter, Beijing
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