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Biggest Photo Archive of 19th Century China Needs a New Custodian, Says Us Collector Who Amassed the 20,000-plus Images
South China Morning Post 23 Nov, 2020US collector and philanthropist Stephan Loewentheil has accumulated over 20,000 photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1920
Call Him an Early Adopter: Thomas Child, a 19th-Century Photographer in China
The New York Times 22 Sep, 2016Thomas Child, a British engineer, traveled to China in 1870 for work but was so entranced by the scenery and culture that he stayed for nearly two decades.
When New York-based Raymond Watt came across an article on the BBC news website about a Chinese photography exhibition in the UK last November, he was shocked, to say the least.