Harrison Brown Collection

Photographs and writings by Harrison Brown (1893-1977), a freelance journalist, writing for The Evening Standard, The New Chronicle, The New Statesman, and the Fortnightly Review between the World Wars. He also worked as a broadcaster for the BBC. Harrison moved to Hornby Island, British Columbia in 1937.

Harrison's widow, Hilary Brown, has donated over 600 of her husband's photographs, taken during an extensive trip through Scandinavia, the USSR, Japan, Korea, and China made in 1936-37. Also included are three photographic field notebooks, two diaries, an unedited manuscript "Trail of a Freelance", and other materials including biographical notes regarding Harrison Brown.

Contributed by Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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Who's Who in the Chinese Flare-up.

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Date: 1937-08-21
Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Published in the Vancouver Daily Province, August 21, 1937.

Woman rowing sampan. Pearl River. Canton.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 22-03 by Harrison Brown

Woman rowing sampan. Pearl River. Canton.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 22-07 by Harrison Brown

Woman rowing sampan. Pearl River. Canton.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 22-10 by Harrison Brown

Wushan Gorge,

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Date: 1936-12-18
Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Yangtze River

Yamboshan. Chinese Comm.agents buying grain.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 10-11 by Harrison Brown

Yangtze village.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 20-17 by Harrison Brown