Title

Willmott Blue Brocade Album

Alternative Title

DEW blue brocade album

Description

Photograph album with jacket made of blue silk brocade with gold thread and motif of auspicious signs. The pages of the interior are blue paper with photographs attached with black corner brackets. Some of the photographs have captions written in blue ink.

Commentary

This item set draws together images of pages in the album. To see records for individual photographs, see Donald Earl Willmott's Blue Brocade Album.

Donald Earl Willmott's Blue Brocade Album

Creator

Mary Katharine Willmott

Date Created

late 1930s

Location

Sichuan, China

Culture

Protestant missionaries and Republican Era Chinese

Physical Dimensions

8" h x 15" w

Medium

The album consists of a pair of cardboard pieces, padded with cotton batting and covered with silk brocade, with blue paper pages within bound with string.

Has Part

Donald Earl Willmott's Blue Brocade Album

Provenance

In Donald Willmott's possession from his parents' death in 1986 until given to Cory Willmott in about 2015. Will be donated to the Willmott collection at the Mount Royal Archives after scanning is completed.

Access Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Publisher

SIUE

Record Date

2024-11-23

Contributor

Cory Willmott

Type

Physical Object

References

Mount Royal University Archives