The photographs in this gallery are from the Sidney D. Gamble Digital Collection at the Duke University Libraries.
Sidney Gamble (1890-1968) was a sociologist, China scholar and amateur photographer who traveled in China between 1908 and 1932. He collected data for socio-economic surveys. The reason that his collection of photographs is valuable to the Straw Sandal Project is that he photodocumented rural life and it was mainly this population in China that wore straw sandals. The photographs selected for the gallery below were taken between 1917 and 1919.
As a nonprofit educational and research project, the Straw Sandals Project meets the use requirements as stated in the copyright statement on the Duke Libraries web site:
“The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Texts and images from this collection may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior permission. Copyright in these images is held by Duke University Libraries and/or the heirs of Sidney D. Gamble. All rights are reserved, except as specified above.”
