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A catalogue of photographs and printed pictures of Chinese people made for American audiences, 1866–1944. A project of Tarita Foundation, edited by Jeffrey Liu. The archive catalogues each object as an object: what it shows, what is printed on it, who made it to sell, and what is not known.

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37 catalogued objects, 43 photographs, 1866–1944. Version 0.2 (second accession).

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Many of these objects carry captions written by their publishers for a white American market. Those captions are transcribed exactly as printed, because the wording is evidence. The catalogue text around them is the archive’s own, and it does not adopt the caption’s point of view.

Catalogue text and metadata © 2026 Tarita Foundation, released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The objects are held by the Dehuai Foundation for Historical Images and are reproduced with its permission; every image carries its mark.