[Mr. Harrison Forman photographing Kaifeng Jews] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Mr. Harrison Forman photographing Kaifeng Jews], 1938 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6e/6e22fd1d6780-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Mr. Harrison Forman photographing Kaifeng Jews]
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Harrison Forman, an American photographer and journalist then working in China, appears here at work with his camera among the Jews of Kaifeng, a city in Henan Province. The community traces its presence there to medieval times, when Jewish traders reached the Song-dynasty capital, and by the 1930s it was a small, largely assimilated group that drew outside attention. This halftone reproduction of a photoprint ran in the *China Journal* in September 1938, so it records both the community and how foreign observers chose to document it. The details come from a caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Subjects | Halftone repro. of photoprint. Illus. in: China Journal, 1938 Sept., vol. 29, between pp. 144 and 145. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; China--Kaifeng; Jews; Photographers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,061 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158392 |
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