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Lot 1054
BEATON, CECIL Travel permit and safe conduct issued to Cecil Beaton by the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party) during his 1944 stint as a photographer in the Far East for the British Ministry of Information.
N.p.: 1944. 14 x 14 1/4 inches (36.5 x 35.5 cm); single sheet, printed recto only with some portions accomplished in Chinese by hand in ink, a mounted photograph of Beaton with his Rolleiflex camera mounted at upper left, with an official blind-stamp, the document numbered 0637 at the head. Two small tears with minor losses, some separation on folds, toning. Framed.
Beaton worked for the British Ministry of Information as a war photographer from 1941-44. He visited the Far East on assignment in 1943-44; a harrowing trip, in which he narrowly escaped death death twice in accidents, and lost 250 rolls of film. The present document was issued during the Japanese occupation of China; he visited those parts of the Republic of China that were controlled by the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party, who were at war with the Japanese occupiers. The document lists the provinces that Beaton was allowed to visit, the numbers of cameras he was allowed to carry etc.
C Estate of Thomas P. Lacy
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