Vincent Starrett Photographs, n.d., circa 1930s.

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Vincent Starrett Photographs, n.d., circa 1930s.

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Collection of photographs taken by and assembled by Vincent Starett mostly during his 1935-1937 stay in China. Includes architectural and street views, Chinese laborers and their habitats, market places, sports events, religious processions, beggars, temple statuary, and Americans in China. Includes 5 photos of Ida Pruit and 2 of L.C. Arlington and 2 Japanese postcards from Frederick Starr.

252 photographs plus 2 Japanese postcards.

Peabody Essex Museum

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974

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Vincent Starrett, a police reporter for the Daily News also wrote book reviews for various Chicago newspapers, and in this way became aquainted with Arthur Machen, with whom he had a long and varied correspondence with. The friendship and conflict following resulted in Starrett vs. Machen: A Record of Discovery and Correspondence, which is the focus of this collection. From the description of Vincent Starrett collection of Arthur Machen, 1915-1971. (Southern Illinois University). Wor...

Arlington, L.C. (Lewis Charles), 1859-

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Pruitt, Ida

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Writer, educator, and social worker Ida Pruitt was born in China on December 2, 1888, the daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries Cicero Washington and Anna Seward Pruitt. She spent the first twelve years of her life in Hwanghsien, a village in Shantung province. She attended Cox College in College Park, Georgia (1906-1909), received a B.S. from Columbia University Teachers' College (1910) and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia. Pruitt returned to China as teacher and principal of ...

Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933

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Starr was born in Auburn, NY, Sept. 2, 1858; graduated from Lafayette College in 1882, and received his Ph. D in 1885; professor of biology, Coe College, 1883-87; Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1889-91; professor and Dean of the Science Dept., Pomona College, 1891; assoc. professor, Univ. of Chicago, 1895-1923; publications related to Mexico include: Some first steps in human progress (1895), American Indians (1898), Indians of Southern Mexico (1898), Reading...