Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection

Photos of Korea, dating from 1890-1923.

 Food shop, Seoul, Korea, 1890-1923

  

 Funeral procession, Korea, 1890-1923

  

 Korean women ironing with round wooden sticks, 1910s

  

 Native aristocrat of the old school in his rickshaw after the fall of the government, Korea, 1910-1920

  

 Shoe market, Seoul, Korea, 1890-1923

  

Women washing laundry in stream, Korea, 1890-1923

Vintage Korea

These are from the Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection housed at USC. The photographic images in this collection were preserved for posterity by Rev. Corwin Taylor and his wife Nellie Blood-Taylor of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Methodist missionaries to Korea, 1908 to about 1922.

 Girls on a jumping board, Korea

  

 Wash day in Korea

  

 Autobus near Konju

  

 Korean laundry

  

 Lower grade girls, Ewa Haktang school, Seoul

   

 Pig on a jiggy

  

 Shoeing a bullock, Korea

  

Two women grinding at the mill, Korea

Vintage Korea

 Group of passengers, possibly on train car, ca. 1904

  

 Locomotive on bridge over streetcar, ca. 1904

  

 Middle-class Korean man with warm hat, ca. 1904

  

 Military ceremony

  

 Peasants pounding rice, ca. 1904

  

 Procession of children carrying Korean and American flags, ca. 1904

  

 The man to the right wears a typical topknot hair style called esangtue. The young woman in the center seems to bring wine in a pitcher for the Lunar New Year dinner for her family, ca. 1904

  

 Two Koreans in mourning dress, ca. 1904

  

Western woman with Korean bearers and palanquin

Vintage Korea

 Gordon Paddock and Senator Newlands with Koreans, 1905

[Gordon Paddock  was appointed Secretary of the American Legation in Seoul in 1901, 

as well as Vice and Deputy Consul General; he became Consul General in 1902]

  

 Korean farmer and daughter under thatched roof, ca. 1904

  

 Korean kisaengs, or singing girls, dressed up for singing and dancing. Korean kisaeng is special women's occupation that exists for helping parties enjoyable by singing and dancing, ca. 1904

  

 Korean porter with wicker chair on back

  

 Korean shopkeepers with wares, ca. 1904

  

 Namdaemun (Great South Gate in Seoul) is shown here with the tramtrails, 

which was instituted as a public transportion system in May 1899. ca. 1904

  

 Namdaemun (Great South Gate in Seoul) is shown here with the tramtrails, 

which was instituted as a public transportion system in May 1899. ca. 1904

  

 Senator Newlands, ca. 1904

  

 Seoul from a distance

  

 Three people on a swing in the countryside, ca. 1904

[the one constant everywhere in the world? people like to have fun]

  

 Water-carrier, ca. 1904

  

 Western man and Korean laborer resting by statues, Yi Dynasty kings' tombs, 1905

  

Women are shown washing laundry in the stream running through a side street, ca. 1904

Vintage Korea

First group of a great collection. Most are from Cornell University Archives.

 A merchant and his friends on a cold day, ca. 1904

  

 An ox market in Korea, ca. 1904

  

 Bullock or pony-drawn carts, loaded with firewood or grass 

for household fires, filing through the streets, ca. 1904

  

 Children climb on a statue outside of one of Korea's grand palaces, ca. 1904

  

 Fulling clothes was a women's chore done usually in the evenings, after 

the kitchen work was finished for the day. When the clothes were still 

slightly damp after washing, they were folded and fulled on a flat board. ca. 1904

  

 Group of Korean men, in full scholar's attire, ca. 1904

  

 Korean boatman

  

 Korean laborer and middle class in front of store, ca. 1904

  

 Korean men with sunglasses, ca. 1904

  

 Korean scholar posing on stone animal at Yi king's tomb, 1905

  

 Line of children (orphans?) with American and Korean flags, ca. 1904

  

Min Yong-hwan's state funeral procession, ca. 1904