National Library of China is soliciting old pictures about global Chinese people
Author: Jessica On: Apr 12, 2010 In: Books, History, Life, Story of the DayPicture of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mey-ling, former President and First Lady of China.
The National Library of China, the world s largest archive of Chinese books and manuscripts, is now soliciting old pictures about the life and history of global Chinese descendents. Donars of pictures eligible to be permanently collected by NLC will be conferred with an official certificate. Please contact nlcoldphoto@yahoo.cn for details.
originally posted on NLC official website:
http://www.nlc.gov.cn/en/news/nlcnews_2009110902.htm
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Call for Historical Photographs from the Chinese People all over the World
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Updated: 2009-11-09 9:45
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The photographs record history by images. More than 7,000 kinds of photographs (over100, 000 in number) are deposited in the National Library of China (NLC), which cover a large area in contents, such as cultural relics and historic sites, place of interests, local customs and practices, historical figures, clothes and ornaments art, education and so on. Among those items, photographs of historical figures, news and souvenir photographs of important politics activities of the CCP and PRC bear a great value in terms of documents. Benefited from great supports and help from all social circles, the NLC could have rich collections. The generous donations from all social circles have been a very important way for acquisition ever since a long time ago. In order to keep a complete and systematic collection of old photographs, the NLC specially calls for historical old photographs from Chinese people all through the world. Historical photograph is referred to those taken with a camera and printed from the films within five years since the photographs were taken. With such collection, we hope to understand the growth and development history of the Chinese people home and abroad, and then to preserve such materials well. Priority collection Contents include: All the donations which conform to our deposition standard and are not included in our existent collection, will be regarded as the official collection and deposited in our library forever. The donators will be issued a collection certification , which will serve as a proof of the donations to the National Library of China. Thank you! Please send your photograph samples or information to the address following: Address: Ms. Jin Jing, Map & Atlas Section, Ancient Books Library, National Library of China, No.33 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing |
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