Collections

Original photographs, documents, books, periodicals, posters, maps, unpublished manuscripts, and objects. We are cataloguing them for research, citation, and education.

Eight representative holdings, with records that could become a searchable digital catalogue.

More to explore

More of the collection, still being catalogued.

These materials may support future features, online displays, and education projects as cataloguing continues.

Children photographed in wartime China.
01

Children and wartime relief

Photographs of children and orphans, relief publications, and overseas fundraising records trace aid to the youngest victims of war.

A 1946 letter related to the Sutton files and the University of Nanking.
02

The Sutton files

Letters about the Tokyo Trial, the University of Nanking, and postwar investigations offer a way to study justice, testimony, memory, and evidence.

A roll of historical medical instruments.
03

Medicine, humanitarian aid, and care

Medical instruments, nursing texts, and relief records document treatment, transport, and support beyond the battlefield.

Cover of A Letter from Madame Chiang Kai-shek to Boys and Girls Across the Ocean.
04

Children's publications

Educational and public-facing publications for children across the Pacific brought the Far East into North American classrooms and homes.

Historical photograph of Boxer prisoners.
05

Late Qing China in photographs

Photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries record China amid war, treaties, and international photography.

A late Qing photograph with officials and attendants.
06

Portraits and identity

Portraits, inscriptions, and original mounts offer clues to personal identity, social status, and visual culture.