Celebrating Thirty Years of East Asian Collections

William Hillman Shockley photographs

William Hillman Shockley photographs, 1896-1922 and undated, bulk 1897-1909

These photographs of Chinese mines were taken by William Hillman Shockley (1855-1925), an American mining engineer, amateur photographer, and botanist.  Shockley traveled through China in 1898 for a survey of the coal and iron fields of the southeastern Shanxi province.  Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and educated at MIT, Shockley trained as a mining engineer and, from late 1896 to 1905, traveled through China, Russia, Korea, and Australia in search of mining opportunities.  The William Shockley collection contains over 2,200 prints and negatives of black-and-white photographs taken by Shockley during his travels.

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