Fairbank and Reichschauer Lantern Slide Collection

Harvard-Yenching | Mar 12, 2021

The Fairbank and Rechschauer Lantern Slide Collection, digitized sources from the Harvard-Yenching Library, offers historic visual materials developed for John Fairbank and Edward Rechschauer’s course on East Asian culture in the mid-twentieth century. The images may provide visual aides for students or help with foundational research on East Asian history. They range from scenes of animal and plant life by Dürer, to contemporary paintings by Chinese artists, to photograph slides of Japan, China, and the Philippines captured by the professors in the late 1930s. Note: some images are identified in English by the Wade Giles, rather than pinyin, system.


Tags: East Asia Primary Sources Cultural Urban Visual Culture 1400-1600 1600-1800 1800-1900 1900-1945


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