CATEGORY
Images
INSTITUTION
Duke University
ACCESS
open access
URL
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/gamble
DESCRIPTION
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Collection (1906-2007) at Duke University contains over 5,500 photographs and moving images documenting China from 1908 to 1932, housed in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts. Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), a trained sociologist and amateur photographer, made four trips to China (1908, 1917-1919, 1924-1927, 1931-1932) to conduct socioeconomic surveys while working as secretary for the Beijing YMCA. The collection includes contact sheets, hand-colored glass slides, 35mm duplicate slides, contact prints, negatives, and moving images (filmed 1926-1933) depicting urban and rural life, economic conditions, public events, agriculture, religious statuary, architecture, and the countryside. Also included are artifacts, scrapbooks, personal papers, and records of the Sidney D. Gamble Foundation for China Studies documenting exhibitions in the US and China (1980s-2000s). Additional images from Japan, Korea, and the western United States (circa 1906) are also included. As of 2019, many works entered public domain.
SOURCE LIST
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
TAGS
LAST MODIFIED
2026-01-16