Scope and content Photographs: albumen prints of "Treaty Temple, Tientsin" and "Tientsin towards Treaty Temple," circa 1860; cabinet card photographs from Yuen Chang, photographer in the French Concession, Tientsin of Mildred, Agnes, and Edith Syke (?); cabinet card photograph from M. Maki, Japanese Photographer at the Studio of S. Takeuechi & Co., Tientsin of an unidentified Western religious figure; and photograph of the mounted detachment of the U.S. Army 15th Infantry "guarding American interests in...

Abstract Mostly department correspondence, largely that of Gussie Esther Gaskill, first curator of the Wason Collection (1927-1963); materials concerning trips to China and Japan; projects; bibliographies; acquisitions, cataloging, and other records; accessions list; accounting statistics, and general office files, 1976-1985; annual reports of the East Asian Librarian, 1972-1988. Correspondence relating to Charles Wason's bequest, especially correspondence between Mrs. Charles Wason and the Arthur H....