Florence Lee Powell photographs and writings on Chinese gardens, 1926–1943
Florence Lee Powell took these photographs starting in 1926 to illustrate her 1943 publication, "In the Chinese Garden : a Photographic Tour of the Complete Chinese Garden, with Text Explaining Its Symbolism, as Seen in the Liu Yuan (the Liu Garden) and the Shih Tzu Lin (the Forest of Lions), Two Famous Chinese Gardens in the City of Soochow, Kiangsu Province, China." The collection includes 141 glass lantern slides, 65 of which were never published. The manuscript fragments are small scraps of an original typescript of text for the book which were cut down and used as padding in the slides' original housing case.
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Preferred citation: Florence Lee Powell photographs and writings on Chinese gardens, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC.