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363-08048 to 363-08050.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-08048 to 363-08050
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Title
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Letter to Don Monaco about Shanghai photo series
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Description
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Letter from Beverly Keever to Don Monaco about 14 photos of Shanghai, to be published in Pageant
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Transcript
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Don Monaco
Picture Editor
Pageant
26 West 47th Street
New York 36, New York
Hong Kong
February 6, 1962
Dear Mr. Monaco:
In reply to your letter of January 12th, I am enclosing
negatives and contact prints of 14 photos taken in Shanghai by an
unidentified citizen of a Communist country. Unfortunately, some
of the photos are of poor quality, but I have anclosed all I had
to give you a wider selection.
Please return the results of your decision and any unused
material to the following address.
Thank you for your interest.
Enc.
Sincerely yours,
(Miss) Beverly Deepe
% Associated Press
Mercury Building
Robinson Road
Singapore
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Beverly Deepe
% Associated Press
Mercury Building
Robinson Road
Singapore
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Captions and Photo text.
Shanghai was once ""the Paris of the Orient""--an exotic, gay city of
bars, dancing girls, racetracks, silk arcades, fur salons and elegant
international settlements. Westernized buildings sprang up along the
Bund, the famous waterfront street in the international city where
up to 60,000 foreigners lived. Today, a foreigner is seldom seen on the Bund
where Communist government offices, banks, hotels and shipping agencies
have replaced the Western enterprises. (Pix 1 and S). Few cars are
seen on the streets and overseas Chinese send many bicycles to relatives
Red China. Westernized buildings near the Bund are shown in Pix 3.
Pix 1 was taken near the former British x yacht club on the
Bund, now an entertainment center for visiting seament from the ships of
Greece, Norway, the Netherlands and those from
Communist countries. Sailors can buy at a discount Chinese souvenirs,
shirts, textiles, ballpoint pens and enamelware, but Chinese citizens are not
allowed to make purchases. One foreign sailor called the club
""smelly-nelly. The Chinese don't keep it very clean.""
A sidestreet has been re-named ""liberation,"" called by the Chinese
people the ""street of tragedy,"" where large numbers of Chinese revolutionaries
were shot
by Nationalist forces during the early days of the war. (Pix 4.)
The days of the eh Chinese capitalists vanished as quickly as those
of ""the foreign devils"" after the Communist take-over. A public museum
has been made from the spacious mansion of a wealthy Chinese (Pix 213 and 17).
containing rich Western furntiure (Pix 24), a swimming pool for his
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Deepe
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concubines (Pix 25), and an elaborate garden of bridges, canals and
plush greenery (Pix 23).
China's industrial might was exhibited in the Soviet-built Palace
of Culture, topped by a flashing red start-the only neon light on Shanghai's
barren skyline at night. Shanghai-made turbines, engines, textile machines,
stone-cutting equipment (Pix 8 and 9) and cars (Pix 8) were displayed.
An exhibition room was devoted to high-quality silk and cotton
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from China's leading industrial center. Shanghai-made
textiles, however, are only for export. Chinese guides could not tell
visitors the price of a yard of material. Young girls working at the
exhibition wore Westernized skirts and blouses, but on the streets
Chinese women are seldom seen in a dress--never in a silk one. (Pix 6).
t='3le 14)
(Pix 15). A group of young Chinese boys--the future Communists
of their Motherland-- stop on a Shanghai street to study a Western photographer.
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Date
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1962, Feb. 6
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Subject
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Shanghai, China; Photojournalism; Journalists; Newspaper editors
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Location
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Hong Kong, British Empire
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Coordinates
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22.3361; 114.1869
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Size
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20 x 26 cm
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Container
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B1, F7
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Format
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dispatches
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Collector
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
