Khingan range, 28 September 1912 : man standing on railway tracks
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Material Information

Title:
Khingan range, 28 September 1912 : man standing on railway tracks
Series Title:
Cormack, George E. photo album (MS 380660/02)
Creator:
Cormack, George E (1886-1959); businessman
Place of Publication:
[London]
Publication Date:
Language:
English
Materials:
Paper ( medium )

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Lesser Khingan Range (China) ( LCSH )
Railroad tracks ( LCSH )
Manchuria (China) ( LCSH )
满洲
滿洲
东北
東北
小兴安岭
Малый Хинган
Migrant workers ( UKAT )
Railways ( UKAT )
Railroads ( LCSH )
Mountains
Genre:
Photographs
Spatial Coverage:
亞洲 -- 中國 -- 黑龍江 -- 小興安嶺
Asia -- China -- Heilongjiang -- Lesser Khingan Range
亚洲 -- 中国 -- 黑龙江 -- 小兴安岭
Coordinates:
48.791667 x 127.208333

Notes

General Note:
Extracted from MS 380660/02 (Album), photograph page 3, image top left
General Note:
1 black & white photograph, positive
General Note:
George E. Cormack was born in 1886. He spent the period 1913-1917 in Manchuria as a business representative, returning to Britain escorting a group of Chinese labourers destined for the Chinese Labour Corps. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in North Russia between 1918-1919 and this was followed by a brief sojourn in South Russia, 1919-1920. He then worked in Estonia and Latvia as a shipping agent, 1924-1940. He returned to northern Russia from 1941-1942 as a Ministry of War Transport representative with the Murmansk convoys. He died in 1959.
General Note:
Donated in 1995 and 1996.
General Note:
From the photograph album, of images from Manchuria and Siberia, taken by George Cormack (1912-1913).
General Note:
The physical collection also includes a set of black & white postive glass-plate slides (1912-1919) relating to a visit on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Siberia and North Manchuria.
General Note:
Associated Material held elsewhere: George E. Cormack's memoirs and papers are held at Imperial War Museum Department of Documents [reference 92/21/1]; Two photograph albums Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive [reference 9205- 03]
General Note:
Name authority information for George E. Cormack is held by SOAS, University of London, record number GB/SOASNAF/P310.
General Note:
This collection is part of SOAS Geographic name authority files for East Asia/Asia and the Pacific (GB/SOASNAF/P06) and Eastern Europe/Europe (GB/SOASNAF/P07)
General Note:
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General Note:
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Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives & Special Collections
Rights Management:
This item is in the public domain. Please use in accord with Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC). High resolution digital master available from SOAS, University of London - the Digital Library Project Office.
Resource Identifier:
MS 380660/02 ( soas manuscript number )