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Mongolian Fossil Hunters pre-Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) (draft note)
Draft––Note on whether Mongolians (and others) were aware of and collecting fossils in Mongolia before the Central Asiatic Expeditions began its activity there in 1922: In one of his papers, Johan G. Andersson associates F. A. Larson with two Mongolian fossil-collectors, as follows: "Haldjinko, was consequently engaged for the purpose, through the mediation of Mr. Larson, and this Mongol soon became a very good fossil hunter.... On my arrival in the Hallong-Osso region (115 km NNW of Kalgan), in July 191
Category:HistoryReads:588Uploaded:07 / 29 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionExchanging Favors: the fossil hunter and the Yangtze Patrol, March, 1923 (working paper)
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) fossil hunter Walter Granger's encounters with a warlord battle and a U.S. Navy gunboat in Sichuan Province, China, 1923.
Category:HistoryReads:605Uploaded:07 / 29 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionBase Camp Yenchingkou, Szechwan Province, 1921-1926: Chinese village life through the eyes of a resident fossil hunter (working paper)
Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) fossil hunter Walter Granger's life at base camp in Sichuan Province, China.
Category:HistoryReads:419Uploaded:07 / 29 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionShop Signs of Peking by Zhou Peichun
This book of street shop symbols was acquired in Peking by American paleontologist Walter Granger and his wife Anna, apparently in association with a lecture on Street Calls of Peking given at the Peking Art Institute on May 15, 1930. It has remained in family hands ever since. In 1931, one hundred copies of a picture book entitled "The Shop Signs of Peking" were printed in Peking. Prefaced by H. K. Fung, Ph.D., and containing only occasional slight organizational and artistic differences, that book essentially replicates this original set of Zhou Peichun watercolors. The cover and each page but one in this booklet is stamped with Zhou Peichun's personal red seal attesting authenticity. Portrayed are the colorful China shop signs, or street calls, of old Peking such as pawn shop, lamp store, tea house, hat shop, saddle store, bakery, bath house, military saber shop, tobacco store. Each is done in lively colors with great delicacy suggesting that quite an artistic splendor beckoned shoppers to what lay inside various shops. This heralding through art must have created quite a visual splendor that vitalized the strolling and shopping experience. Zhou Peichun's stamp is translated as follows: "Peking. Da-zhi from outside of Shun-zhi Gate, painted by Zhou Pei-Chun, from near side of bridge at the west end of the crossroads on the south side of the street."
Category:Arts & ArchitectureReads:811Uploaded:11 / 29 / 2009ShareAdd to collection"Blue Mondays"
Photo skit for Walter Granger and Albert Thomson on missing lunch with Herbert Lang, Louis Monaco, George Gaylord Simpson and Roy C. Andrews. Authors presumed to be some combination of H. Lang, L. Monaco, G. G. Simpson, and/or R. C. Andrews.
Category:HistoryReads:365Uploaded:04 / 21 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionRomany Marie Tribute to Walter Granger, March, 1937
To Walter Granger at Romany Marie’s Tavern in Greenwich Village (NYC), Wednesday, March 10, 1937: Delver in dusty bones, linker of fossil vertebrae, Assembling fossil mammals on a family tree, Uncoverer of sauri and their ova, Mid trackless deserts and in terra nova; Who, reading of your record as a ranger, Could know you as we know you, Walter Granger? Your keen and kindly wit, your lack of vanity, Your sage and friendly contacts with humanity! From dead diluvians and the Old World plan You
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