Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner photograph and postcard collection relating to Korea and Asia
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 89-16
name: label: Collector
content: Brunner, Edmund de S. (Edmund de Schweinitz), 1889-1973
label: Collector
content: Brunner, Mary B.
place: label: Place
content: Singapore
label: Place
content: China
label: Place
content: Manchuria
label: Place
content: Japan
label: Place
content: Korea
label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Child care
label: Topic
content: Food
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Schools
label: Topic
content: Silk industry
label: Topic
content: Commerce
label: Topic
content: Markets
label: Topic
content: Laundry
label: Topic
content: Transportation
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Fishing
creator: label: Collector
content: Brunner, Edmund de S. (Edmund de Schweinitz), 1889-1973
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
label: Culture
content: Japanese
label: Culture
content: Koreans
label: Culture
content: Filipinos
label: Culture
content: Manchus
label: Culture
content: Igorot (Philippine people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner (1889-1973) earned his BA, PhD, and BD (Bachelor of Divinity) from Moravian College and Seminary in Pennsylvania. He worked as a pastor before becoming the Moravian Church representative on the Rural Church Commission of the Federal Council of Churches as well as the Director of Rural Investigations of the Institute for Social and Religious Research. A scholar of the church in rural communities, Brunner wrote books and articles and lectured in rural sociology at Columbia University Teachers College, Western Connecticut State College (1957-1967), and in Australia and New Zealand.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 75 Prints (circa, collotype (some tinted, some postcards))
label: Extent
content: 400 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (some on postcard stock))
label: Extent
content: Album
label: Extent
content: 1 Copy negative
label: Extent
content: 1 Print (albumen)
label: Extent
content: 2 Colored prints
label: Extent
content: 17 Prints (color halftone (including postcards))
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1927-1928
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The album was passed down through family members to a student at Indiana University during the mid 1970s. Through professor Nicholas A. Fattu, the student gave the album to Fredrick C. and Mary Fattu Ashley, who were about to travel to Seoul, Korea, as members of the American Embassy staff there. The Ashleys donated the album to the National Anthropological Archives, circa 1988.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.89-16
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Copy negatives
label: Type
content: Colored prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs documenting people and culture in Korea, Japan, Manchuria, China, the Philippines, and Singapore. They include images of people, buildings, trades and commerce, markets, village and city scenes, laundering, child care, food and food preparation, churches and shrines, schools, dances, transportation, and fishing.

The photographs and postcards were made and collected by Edmund de S. Brunner and Mary B. Brunner during the Asian leg of their around-the-world trip, 1927-1928.