China 1917–1919 by Sidney David Gamble


    [Sidney D. Gamble (July 12, 1890 – 1968) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to David Berry and Mary Huggins Gamble; grandson of James Gamble, who, with William Procter, founded Procter & Gamble in 1837. in 1912 he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Literature degree and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He visited China for four extended periods, 1908, 1917–1919, 1924–27, and 1931–1932, doing Christian social work for the Y.M.C.A and conducting social surveys. He is now best known for his remarkable and extensive photographs of Peking and North China.

    At his death he left his widow, the former Elizabeth Lowe, four children, Catherine, Louise, David, and Anne, and ten grandchildren. His daughter, Catherine G. Curran, in 1986 established the Sidney D. Gamble Foundation, and the Sidney D. Gamble Lectures are given annually in Pasadena, California.

    Gamble first toured in 1908 accompanying his parents, then after graduating from Princeton in 1912, studied labor and industrial economics at University of California, Berkeley, spending six months on a fellowship working at a reform school for delinquent boys. At this time, he built the house which became known as the Sidney D. Gamble House.

    In 1917, he joined the work of Princeton-in-Peking and the Peking YMCA where his Princeton friend John Stewart Burgess invited him to do the surveys which resulted in Peking: A Social Survey, which included more than fifty photographs. In 1919 Gamble was on hand to capture dramatic photographs of the May Fourth demonstrations. The motto of the May Fourth Movement, [To save China through science and democracy], and the missionary ideal of [Saving China through Christianity] for a time seemed to be united. When he returned with his bride, Elizabeth Lowe, to China in 1924, he used his family resources to hire a team of Chinese researchers to survey 283 families. The book was published in 1933 as How Chinese Families Live in Peiping (as Peking was then called). In 1926, Gamble traveled for three weeks in the Soviet Union with Sherwood Eddy, a longtime mentor.

    As China became more and more inflamed by patriotic agitation and warlord fighting, he found hope in the Ting Hsien Experiment in Rural Reconstruction conducted by James Yen’s Mass Education Movement. In 1931–32 Gamble traveled to China for the fourth and final time to organize the surveys which he used for three more detailed volumes, Ting Hsien: A North China Rural Community (1954) and North China Villages (1963). Chinese Village Plays, published in 1970, after his death, give translations based on unique transcriptions of now lost village yang ko plays, which differ from the later dances.

    Jonathan Spence concludes of Gamble that his [findings were open-minded, clear headed, methodologically intelligent (though not always beyond criticism by scholars of different views), startlingly imaginative, and – when presented in photographic form – vigorous, ebullient, unsentimental, and starkly, yet never cruelly, illustrative of the deep and real suffering that lay at the heart of China's long revolution].] – Wikipedia. (Photos by Sidney David Gamble via Duke University Libraries). P.S. All photos are available in high resolution.


    Crowd – watching picture being taken. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Crowd – watching picture being taken. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Mr. Chia. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Mr. Chia. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Child Collecting Fuel & Scared. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Child Collecting Fuel & Scared. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Man Riding Barrow. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Man Riding Barrow. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Selling Old Iron. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Selling Old Iron. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Lumber Carrier. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Lumber Carrier. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Funeral Feast. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Funeral Feast. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Carrying Tea. China, Qushan, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Carrying Tea. China, Qushan, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Hillcoat Riding Fu Tu. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Hillcoat Riding Fu Tu. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Sidney Gamble Chair & Corona. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Sidney Gamble Chair & Corona. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Talley Keeper. China, Shanghai, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Talley Keeper. China, Shanghai, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Old Gun. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Old Gun. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Mr. & Mrs. Kao (Gao) in Tibetan. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Mr. & Mrs. Kao (Gao) in Tibetan. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Fur collar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Fur collar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Brush Carrier (Bad). China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Brush Carrier (Bad). China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Beggar Boy. China, Tai Mountains, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Beggar Boy. China, Tai Mountains, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Boy Scouts House. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Boy Scouts House. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Harrowing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Harrowing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    13,500 Cash to Shu Fu Tsang. China, Shu Fu Tsang (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    13,500 Cash to Shu Fu Tsang. China, Shu Fu Tsang (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Barbers on Bund. China, Yichang Shi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Barbers on Bund. China, Yichang Shi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Policeman in boat during a flood. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Policeman in boat during a flood. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Two Grandmas, Salvation Army. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Two Grandmas, Salvation Army. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Children Carrying Firewood. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Children Carrying Firewood. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Soldiers. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Soldiers. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Page & Children. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Page & Children. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Pusiang Children at Table. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Pusiang Children at Table. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    $5,000 (Five thousand dollar) Check. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    $5,000 (Five thousand dollar) Check. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Victory Celebration, November 13, Diplomats etc. Baron Hayashi. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Victory Celebration, November 13, Diplomats etc. Baron Hayashi. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Man on Wheelbarrow. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Man on Wheelbarrow. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Prison, Making Matches. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Prison, Making Matches. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Beggars, Beihai Park. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Beggars, Beihai Park. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Student Arrest Soldiers on Guard. China, Beijing, June 4 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Student Arrest Soldiers on Guard. China, Beijing, June 4 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Hangyang Iron Works. China, Hankou (Wuhan), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Hangyang Iron Works. China, Hankou (Wuhan), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Stove. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Stove. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Dr. Metcalf & Patients. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Dr. Metcalf & Patients. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Needle Pagoda. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Needle Pagoda. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Child with Life Preserver. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Child with Life Preserver. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Woman & Baby. China, Tongliang Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Woman & Baby. China, Tongliang Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Suspension Bridge. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Suspension Bridge. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Water Chestnuts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Water Chestnuts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Man on Rope Bridge. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Man on Rope Bridge. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Tsinghua Crowd & Poteat family. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Tsinghua Crowd & Poteat family. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Wood Market and Canal. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Wood Market and Canal. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Sui An Po – Mud. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Sui An Po – Mud. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Funeral Set, Paper Horse & Carriage. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Funeral Set, Paper Horse & Carriage. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    New Year's worship, Woman lighting Incense. China, Baoding Fu, February 1, 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    New Year's worship, Woman lighting Incense. China, Baoding Fu, February 1, 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Honey Wagon. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Honey Wagon. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Machine Shop. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Machine Shop. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Chi Hua Men Chapel & Reception Committee. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Chi Hua Men Chapel & Reception Committee. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Buddhist Orphanage Reform School, Lithographing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Buddhist Orphanage Reform School, Lithographing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    November 29 student demonstration, Tiananmen Square. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    November 29 student demonstration, Tiananmen Square. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) Building. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) Building. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Sui An Po children, one picking nose. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Sui An Po children, one picking nose. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Anti-Opium Inspectors. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Anti-Opium Inspectors. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Winnowing. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Winnowing. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    City God, Attendant & Boys. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    City God, Attendant & Boys. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Boys Fishing. China, Xindu Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Boys Fishing. China, Xindu Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Making Sandals Sun Yien Dien. China, Sanyuan Zhen (Santai Xiang, Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Making Sandals Sun Yien Dien. China, Sanyuan Zhen (Santai Xiang, Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Grub Boxes. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Grub Boxes. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Sawing Coffin Tops. China, Tongchuan (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Sawing Coffin Tops. China, Tongchuan (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Escort. China, Zhaozhen (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Escort. China, Zhaozhen (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Money Changer. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Money Changer. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Nut Boys. China, Tanzhesi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Nut Boys. China, Tanzhesi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Charley. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Charley. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Ferryman. China, Chongqing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Ferryman. China, Chongqing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Funeral Paper Servants. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Funeral Paper Servants. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Women Mr. Lie Camp. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Women Mr. Lie Camp. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Boat on Mud Slide. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Boat on Mud Slide. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Weaving Belts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Weaving Belts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Thanksgiving Day Review, President's Party at Hall of Supreme Harmony. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Thanksgiving Day Review, President's Party at Hall of Supreme Harmony. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Thanksgiving Day Review, President Making Speech Telar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Thanksgiving Day Review, President Making Speech Telar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Road to Temple Beggars. China, Baoding Fu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Road to Temple Beggars. China, Baoding Fu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Rickshas, Bicycle. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Rickshas, Bicycle. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Tsinghua Scouts Cooking. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Tsinghua Scouts Cooking. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Opium burning, Group Behind Tables. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Opium burning, Group Behind Tables. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Old Man and children. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Old Man and children. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    American Board District, Blind Beggar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    American Board District, Blind Beggar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Mule Litter. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Mule Litter. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



    Wedding Carriages. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


    Wedding Carriages. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)

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China 1917–1919 by Sidney David Gamble


[Sidney D. Gamble (July 12, 1890 – 1968) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to David Berry and Mary Huggins Gamble; grandson of James Gamble, who, with William Procter, founded Procter & Gamble in 1837. in 1912 he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Literature degree and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He visited China for four extended periods, 1908, 1917–1919, 1924–27, and 1931–1932, doing Christian social work for the Y.M.C.A and conducting social surveys. He is now best known for his remarkable and extensive photographs of Peking and North China.

At his death he left his widow, the former Elizabeth Lowe, four children, Catherine, Louise, David, and Anne, and ten grandchildren. His daughter, Catherine G. Curran, in 1986 established the Sidney D. Gamble Foundation, and the Sidney D. Gamble Lectures are given annually in Pasadena, California.

Gamble first toured in 1908 accompanying his parents, then after graduating from Princeton in 1912, studied labor and industrial economics at University of California, Berkeley, spending six months on a fellowship working at a reform school for delinquent boys. At this time, he built the house which became known as the Sidney D. Gamble House.

In 1917, he joined the work of Princeton-in-Peking and the Peking YMCA where his Princeton friend John Stewart Burgess invited him to do the surveys which resulted in Peking: A Social Survey, which included more than fifty photographs. In 1919 Gamble was on hand to capture dramatic photographs of the May Fourth demonstrations. The motto of the May Fourth Movement, [To save China through science and democracy], and the missionary ideal of [Saving China through Christianity] for a time seemed to be united. When he returned with his bride, Elizabeth Lowe, to China in 1924, he used his family resources to hire a team of Chinese researchers to survey 283 families. The book was published in 1933 as How Chinese Families Live in Peiping (as Peking was then called). In 1926, Gamble traveled for three weeks in the Soviet Union with Sherwood Eddy, a longtime mentor.

As China became more and more inflamed by patriotic agitation and warlord fighting, he found hope in the Ting Hsien Experiment in Rural Reconstruction conducted by James Yen’s Mass Education Movement. In 1931–32 Gamble traveled to China for the fourth and final time to organize the surveys which he used for three more detailed volumes, Ting Hsien: A North China Rural Community (1954) and North China Villages (1963). Chinese Village Plays, published in 1970, after his death, give translations based on unique transcriptions of now lost village yang ko plays, which differ from the later dances.

Jonathan Spence concludes of Gamble that his [findings were open-minded, clear headed, methodologically intelligent (though not always beyond criticism by scholars of different views), startlingly imaginative, and – when presented in photographic form – vigorous, ebullient, unsentimental, and starkly, yet never cruelly, illustrative of the deep and real suffering that lay at the heart of China's long revolution].] – Wikipedia. (Photos by Sidney David Gamble via Duke University Libraries). P.S. All photos are available in high resolution.


Crowd – watching picture being taken. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Crowd – watching picture being taken. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Mr. Chia. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Mr. Chia. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Child Collecting Fuel & Scared. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Child Collecting Fuel & Scared. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Man Riding Barrow. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Man Riding Barrow. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Selling Old Iron. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Selling Old Iron. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Lumber Carrier. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Lumber Carrier. China, Guan Xian (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Funeral Feast. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Funeral Feast. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Carrying Tea. China, Qushan, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Carrying Tea. China, Qushan, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Hillcoat Riding Fu Tu. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Hillcoat Riding Fu Tu. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Sidney Gamble Chair & Corona. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Sidney Gamble Chair & Corona. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Talley Keeper. China, Shanghai, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Talley Keeper. China, Shanghai, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Old Gun. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Old Gun. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Mr. & Mrs. Kao (Gao) in Tibetan. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Mr. & Mrs. Kao (Gao) in Tibetan. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Fur collar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Fur collar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Brush Carrier (Bad). China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Brush Carrier (Bad). China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Beggar Boy. China, Tai Mountains, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Beggar Boy. China, Tai Mountains, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Boy Scouts House. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Boy Scouts House. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Harrowing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Harrowing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



13,500 Cash to Shu Fu Tsang. China, Shu Fu Tsang (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


13,500 Cash to Shu Fu Tsang. China, Shu Fu Tsang (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Barbers on Bund. China, Yichang Shi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Barbers on Bund. China, Yichang Shi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Policeman in boat during a flood. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Policeman in boat during a flood. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Two Grandmas, Salvation Army. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Two Grandmas, Salvation Army. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Children Carrying Firewood. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Children Carrying Firewood. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Soldiers. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Soldiers. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Page & Children. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Page & Children. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Pusiang Children at Table. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Pusiang Children at Table. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



$5,000 (Five thousand dollar) Check. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


$5,000 (Five thousand dollar) Check. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Victory Celebration, November 13, Diplomats etc. Baron Hayashi. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Victory Celebration, November 13, Diplomats etc. Baron Hayashi. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Man on Wheelbarrow. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Man on Wheelbarrow. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Prison, Making Matches. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Prison, Making Matches. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Beggars, Beihai Park. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Beggars, Beihai Park. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Student Arrest Soldiers on Guard. China, Beijing, June 4 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Student Arrest Soldiers on Guard. China, Beijing, June 4 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Hangyang Iron Works. China, Hankou (Wuhan), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Hangyang Iron Works. China, Hankou (Wuhan), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Stove. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Stove. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Dr. Metcalf & Patients. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Dr. Metcalf & Patients. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Needle Pagoda. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Needle Pagoda. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Child with Life Preserver. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Child with Life Preserver. China, Guangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Woman & Baby. China, Tongliang Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Woman & Baby. China, Tongliang Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Suspension Bridge. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Suspension Bridge. China, Mao Zhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Water Chestnuts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Water Chestnuts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Man on Rope Bridge. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Man on Rope Bridge. China, Zagunao, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Tsinghua Crowd & Poteat family. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Tsinghua Crowd & Poteat family. China, Kaifeng Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Wood Market and Canal. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Wood Market and Canal. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Sui An Po – Mud. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Sui An Po – Mud. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Funeral Set, Paper Horse & Carriage. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Funeral Set, Paper Horse & Carriage. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



New Year's worship, Woman lighting Incense. China, Baoding Fu, February 1, 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


New Year's worship, Woman lighting Incense. China, Baoding Fu, February 1, 1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Honey Wagon. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Honey Wagon. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Machine Shop. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Machine Shop. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Chi Hua Men Chapel & Reception Committee. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Chi Hua Men Chapel & Reception Committee. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Buddhist Orphanage Reform School, Lithographing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Buddhist Orphanage Reform School, Lithographing. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



November 29 student demonstration, Tiananmen Square. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


November 29 student demonstration, Tiananmen Square. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) Building. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) Building. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Sui An Po children, one picking nose. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Sui An Po children, one picking nose. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Anti-Opium Inspectors. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Anti-Opium Inspectors. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Winnowing. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Winnowing. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



City God, Attendant & Boys. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


City God, Attendant & Boys. China, An Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Boys Fishing. China, Xindu Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Boys Fishing. China, Xindu Xian, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Making Sandals Sun Yien Dien. China, Sanyuan Zhen (Santai Xiang, Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Making Sandals Sun Yien Dien. China, Sanyuan Zhen (Santai Xiang, Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Grub Boxes. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Grub Boxes. China, Chengdu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Sawing Coffin Tops. China, Tongchuan (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Sawing Coffin Tops. China, Tongchuan (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Escort. China, Zhaozhen (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Escort. China, Zhaozhen (Sichuan Sheng), 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Money Changer. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Money Changer. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Nut Boys. China, Tanzhesi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Nut Boys. China, Tanzhesi, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Charley. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Charley. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Ferryman. China, Chongqing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Ferryman. China, Chongqing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Funeral Paper Servants. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Funeral Paper Servants. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Women Mr. Lie Camp. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Women Mr. Lie Camp. China, Tianjin, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Boat on Mud Slide. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Boat on Mud Slide. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Weaving Belts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Weaving Belts. China, Hangzhou, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Thanksgiving Day Review, President's Party at Hall of Supreme Harmony. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Thanksgiving Day Review, President's Party at Hall of Supreme Harmony. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Thanksgiving Day Review, President Making Speech Telar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Thanksgiving Day Review, President Making Speech Telar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Road to Temple Beggars. China, Baoding Fu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Road to Temple Beggars. China, Baoding Fu, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Rickshas, Bicycle. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Rickshas, Bicycle. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Tsinghua Scouts Cooking. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Tsinghua Scouts Cooking. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Opium burning, Group Behind Tables. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Opium burning, Group Behind Tables. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Old Man and children. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Old Man and children. China, Beidaihe, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



American Board District, Blind Beggar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


American Board District, Blind Beggar. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Mule Litter. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Mule Litter. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)



Wedding Carriages. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)


Wedding Carriages. China, Beijing, 1917-1919. (Photo by Sidney David Gamble)

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