Visual Sources

Visual materials, i.e., drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, films, videos, etc. are to be found in many Harvard repositories. Records for many, but by no means all, individual Harvard University images are available in HOLLIS Images, an online catalog of images, as well as HOLLIS itself. Records include subjects and a thumbnail image.

Chinese Posters: Propaganda, Politics, History, Art

Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Collection (1908-1932). Mainly of China

Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896 – 1920

Chinese Cultural Revolution Posters 1966-1989

Chinese Poster Collection (University of Westminster)

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization

Digital Public Library of America.  Search China posters

Chinese Poster Collection (University of Westminster)

Visualizing Cultures (MIT). About VC

Asia through a Lens  (British Foreign and Commonwealth Office photographic collection (CO 1069)). Includes scenes from across the Asian continent, including China, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database (Yale University) includes images from the Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and the Archives of the Trustees of Lingnan University. Hit Find, NOT the Enter key.

International Mission Photography Archive (Yale University). Search China.

The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China includes over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s, together with several hundred books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., in several languages.

Hedda Morrison Photographs of China (1933-1946)

ARTstor is a database of digital images serving art history and the humanities.

Recording the Grandeur of the Qing

China Historical GIS: a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE.