A part of Duke University’s digital collection is the photos of Sidney Gamble who took many pictures of China and Korea (1917-1919). Included in this collection is even a picture of the Chosun Christian College (Yonhui Taehakkyo), now called Yonsei University (Above, a gentleman with a rain hat).
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Nice find. I read of Korea’s veiled women (upper class, I recall) but hadn’t seen a photo. Similar to the get up in the Gulf states. Not many beasts of burden. Except for man.
You mean Yonsei University.
Thanks, R. Elgin, for the pictures’ link. Can you or Seouldout tell me a little more about the veiled women history? Was this a sign of class and/or a way of preventing their skin from turning darker due to the sun?
Koreans – getting jiggy with it since 1918.
http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gamble.316-1811/pg.1/
Maybe I’m missing something, but you’d think they’d have a bit more user friendly way to get through the photos….
Worth it though, fascinating…
Shame the titles aren’t more illuminating also. Make you wonder at the backstory, such as all the photos of mourners at the train in Pyongyang.
Exactly “Arg”; pages fallen out of a book. These guys like Gamble hauled all this gear around, setting up shots but never had time to really annotate other than a few jots in the margin. It leaves so many questions that we must play detective to. It would have been amazing if he had asked a set series of questions from each subject to add to the photo.
Kind of odd looking at photos of Koreans…and no one is flashing the peace sign.
#7,
In addition to my other question, wouldn’t it have been odd if he hadn’t had a translator with him? With the picture I linked to, obviously someone in his crew spoke Urimal.
#8,
That’s comedy gold there, but it’s not Coreacentric. I cannot tell you the number of photos I have with Japanese doing the same. It’s particularly awesome when you have 37 schoolgirls (hey, I was young, once!) doing it at the same time.
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