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Title
Customs
harbor
devastation
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
(Canton
,
China)
Subject topic
Swatow
Typhoon
1922
Statement
Restrictions may apply. For more information see
http://library.sonoma.edu/about/copyright.php
Identifier
rmt_02-015
Source collection
Roy Maxwell Talbot Papers
Digital collection
Roy
Maxwell
Talbot
Digital
Collection
Related resources
http://iii.sonoma.edu/record=b1445648
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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