Title	Customs harbor devastation, Sawtow
Photographer	Mee Cheung
Date created	1922
Description	Swatow Typhoon killed thousands in the Chinese city of Swatow in August, 1922. The death toll makes it one of the deadliest typhoons in history. Note with photo: In the foreground is the back of the customs harbor. 27 bodies were taken out. Another floating pile-driver is piled high on our [?]. Junks of various sorts broke in the front of our boatmen's quarters. The wreckage you see is floating. The damage to Customs property was heavy though the buildings were built to withstand typhoons, earthquakes, fires, mosquitos, flies, etc., but not the battering of junks! Printed photo credit: Mee Cheung, Photographer, Swatow China. Purple oval ink stamp in lower corner.
Type of object	Image
Physical description	5 6/8 x 8 1/8 inches gelatin printing out paper, very fragile; purplish color; most are bent or broken off at corners. Pencil writing on reverse. Excellent details in the entire image.
Institution	Sonoma State University Library, Rohnert Park, California
Subject place	Swatow (China)
Subject name	Chinese Maritime Customs Service
Subject topic	Swatow Typhoon, 1922
Copyright statement	Restrictions may apply. For more information see http://library.sonoma.edu/specialcollections/usingcollections/rights/
Identifier	rmt_02-015
Source collection	Roy Maxwell Talbot Papers
Digital collection	Roy Maxwell Talbot Digital Collection
Related links	Roy Maxwell Talbot Papers: http://iii.sonoma.edu/record=b1445648~S10
Object form	Photograph
Digital reproduction	Original photograph scanned as 400 dpi tiff with 6000 ppi on long side--Display jpeg set at 400 dpi and 1024 ppi on long side
Language	eng
Country	U.S.

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