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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Funeral procession. Canton. Various carnival figures.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 22-31 by Harrison Brown

Gateway in Sian.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 13-21 by Harrison Brown

Gateway of Temple of the Second Son. Another scene.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 16-19 by Harrison Brown

General Yen Hsi-Shan. At Pacification HQ Taiyuanfu.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 12-28 by Harrison Brown

Girls of a Middle School Military Training Corps. Nanning.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 24-32 by Harrison Brown

Girls of a Middle School Military Training Corps. Nanning. Full length.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 24-33 by Harrison Brown

Grandma at the prow.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 24-21 by Harrison Brown

Group of 5 snapped in doorway.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 24-35 by Harrison Brown

Hilary Brown on H.B.'s Career.

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Date: 1978-11-03
Name(s): Brown, Hilary

Hong Kong street scene.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 24-45 by Harrison Brown

Horizontal. 6 Buddhas.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 07-34 by Harrison Brown

In Mountains near Kweihua. Self and Jimmy Lui. Full length.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 11-22 by Harrison Brown

Interior Da Fo Tsu. Vertical interior. Buddhas in a row.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 07-33 by Harrison Brown

Japanese in Manchuria and Great Wall Map. Nanning. On wall of Merchants' Guild.

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 24-40 by Harrison Brown

Junk (small).

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Name(s): Brown, Harrison, 1893-1977
Description: Photo labelled 17-27 by Harrison Brown