Hedda Morrison photographs, [ca. 1950-1985]2007-2015.
Collection Number: 4516

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Hedda Morrison photographs, [ca. 1950-1985] 2007-2015.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

4516

Abstract:

Photographs and negatives of Sarawak, other places in Malaysia, Indonesia, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

Creator:

Morrison, Hedda.

Stokes, Edward, 1948-

Quanitities:

10 cubic feet.

1 mapcase folders.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Hedda Morrison was born Hedda Hammer in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1908. As a young child she contracted polio, which caused her to walk with a limp. In 1929 she completed her secondary education at the Queen Katherine Convent (Königen-Katherina-Stift Gymnasium für Mädchen) in Stuttgart, and was sent to the University of Innsbruck in Austria to study medicine. After a few months she persuaded her parents to allow her to enroll in the State Institute for Photography in Munich (Bäyerische Staatslehranstalt für Lichtbildwesen in München).

After completing her studies, Hedda found paid work difficult to find as a result of the Depression. She decided to travel to China in 1933 in response to an advertisement in a photography journal. Between 1933 and 1938 she managed Hartung's, a German-owned commercial photographic studio in Peking. After her contract there expired in 1938, she continued to work as a freelance photographer. Hedda's photographs of Peking were well known, and she sold many prints and albums to wealthy overseas visitors as souvenirs.

In 1940 Hedda met Alastair Morrison and they married in Peking in 1946. Due to the increasing instability of the political situation in China, they left Peking soon after. The Morrison's spent six months in Hong Kong before relocating to Sarawak, in the north-west of the island of Borneo, where Alastair was appointed to the British Colonial Service and later became a district officer. Throughout her 20-year residence in Sarawak, Hedda accompanied Alastair on all his official journeys and made numerous independent photographic tours. From 1960-66 Hedda was employed by the Sarawak government to work part-time in the photographic section of the Information Office is Kuching. Her duties included taking photographs, establishing a photographic library and training government photographers. Hedda wrote two major books on Sarawak, Sarawak (1957) and Life in a Longhouse (1962).

In 1967 the Morrisons settled in Canberra, Australia. Hedda died in Canberra in 1991, at the age of 82.

Adapted from: "In her view: the photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67," exhibition catalogue, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

Series I. Travel Notebooks	Boxes 1-2, 28
Series II. Photographs	Boxes 3-16
Series III. Negatives	Boxes 17-25
Series IV. Other Materials	Box 26, 28

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Hedda Morrison photographs, #4516. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

Photographs and negatives of Sarawak, other places in Malaysia, Indonesia, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

Scope and content

2007 and 2008 China Heritage Calendars, and 2009, 2010, and 2015 Hong Kong Heritage Calendars, with photographs by Hedda Morrison, edited by Edward Stokes.

SUBJECTS

Places:

Indonesia -- Pictorial works.

Sarawak (Malaysia) -- Pictorial works.

Form and Genre Terms:

Calendars.

Negatives.

Photographs.

CONTAINER LIST

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Contact sheets

Container		Description	Date
		Travel notebooks
Box 1		Travelling Report	1948-07-1949-12
		34.5 x 22 cm
Box 1		Ulu Trusan, Limbang, North Borneo	1950-05-1950-07
		32.5 x 13.5 cm
Box 1		Fishing villages notes	1950
		21 x 16.5 cm
Box 1		Siden	1951-09-23-1952-05-24
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Penghulu Empam I	1951-11-22-1952-06-13
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Entabai Sengalang	1952-01-12-1952-09-28
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Chinese tour	1952-02-18-1952-11-19
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Briak	1952-03-03-1952-03-21
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Skudan	1952-04-03-1952-06-26
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Ngemah I and II	1952-05-08-1952-05-22
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Penghulu Empam II	1952-07-07-1952-07-27
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Penghulu Chendang	1952-07-10-1952-12-05
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Entabai I and II	1952-01-14-1952-08-16
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
		Scope and Contents Excursion to Sadok and Lubokantu
Box 1		Pengulu Banyang	1952-09-29-1952-11-29
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Penghulu Sengalang, Penghulu Blaja	Album created 1980
		21 x 17 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Baram	1953-01-26-1953-03-27
		21 x 16.5 cm
Box 1		Rumah Saili Ulu Wak	undated
		11 x 7 cm
Box 2		Bakong, Tinjar, Tutoh, Patah	1953-02-17-1953-10-10
Box 2	Folder 5	Loose materials from Bakong, Tinjar, Tutoh, Patah notebook	1953-04-27
Box 2		Kelabit tour I including Akah	1953-06-16-1953-07-05
Box 2		Kelabit II	1953-07-07-1953-07-17
Box 2		Visit to 2nd division travel notes	1955-06-20-1955-06-26
Box 2	Folder 6	Loose materials from Visit to 2nd division travel notebook	1955-06-20-1955-06-26
Box 2		Account book	1953-06-15-1954-02-05
Box 2		ECAFE meeting in Bangalore	1956-01-1956-02
Box 2	Folder 2	Loose materials from ECAFE notebook	1956-01-1956-02
Box 2		Visit to Ceylon	1957-11-16-1957-12-17
Box 2	Folder 1	Loose materials from Ceylon notebook	1957-11-1957-12
Box 2		Visit to Singapore and Malaysia	1967-02-23-1972-05-09
Box 2		Visit to Singapore and Malaysia	1969-03-29-1972-04-14
Box 2		Visit to Indonesia	1978-04-10-1978-05
Box 2	Folder 4	Loose materials from Indonesia notebook	1978-04-1978-05
Box 2		Singapore and Sumatra	1979-04-01-1979-05-10
Box 2	Folder 3	Loose materials from Sumatra notebook	1979-04
Box 2		Central Java	1979-12-15-1980-01-18
Box 2		Tour to Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Burma	1980-11-17-1980-12-17
Box 2		Visit to Luzon	1981-11-12-1981-12-10
Box 2	Folder 7	Loose materials from Luzon notebook	1981-11-12-1981-12-10
		Scope and Contents Includes several photographs.
Box 2		Phillipines	1981-11-12-1981-12-10
Box 2	Folder 9	Loose materials from Phillipines notebook	1981-11-1981-12
Box 2		Brunei, Sarawak, Malaysia, and Singapore	1983-06-1983-07
Box 2	Folder 8	Loose materials from Brunei, Sarawak, Malaysia, and Singapore notebook	1983-06-1983-07
		Scope and Contents Letter to Murray Dickson
		Photographs and slides
		Scope and Contents Many contact sheets and photographs have original notes, inscriptions, or the photographer's stamp verso.
		Processing Information Titles and dates come from Morrison's original box labels except for Sarawak photographs which were undated on box labels.
		Contact sheets.
		Gelatin silver prints.
Box 3	Folder 1-4	Sabah	1964
		Contact sheets
Box 3	Folder 5-8	Trip to Penan, Tutoh Apoh	1964-06
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Negatives for these prints appear in Morrison negative box 22, labeled Borneo Evangelical Mission 1964.
Box 3	Folder 9-12	Baram trip	1966-06
		Contact sheets, names inscribed verso.
Box 3	Folder 13	Hong Kong	1967
		Contact sheets, locations labeled verso.
Box 3	Folder 14	Singapore	1967
		Contact sheets, locations labeled verso.
Box 3	Folder 15-17	Thailand and Malaya	1967
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Malaya East Coast, Bangkok
Box 3	Folder 18	Chinese music instruments, Peking	1933-1946
		20 x 16.5 cm
Box 3	Folder 19	Music Penans	undated
		20 x 16.5 cm
Box 3	Folder 20-21	Trip to Singapore and Malaya	1969-04
		Contact sheets
Box 3	Folder 22-24	L. Jawi, Bintulu, Limbang, Miri	1966
		Contact sheets
Box 4	Folder 1-4	Papua New Guinea	1968
		Contact sheets
Box 4	Folder 5-6	Papua New Guinea	1968-1969
		10 x 12.5 cm
Box 4	Folder 7-10	Mount Hagen, Goroka, Papua New Guinea	1969
		Contact sheets
Box 4	Folder 11	Mount Hagen, Goroka, Papua New Guinea	1969
		15 x 17 cm and smaller
Box 4	Folder 12-17	Kuching and around	undated
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Possibly 1960s
Box 4	Folder 18-23	Mainly Kuching	undated
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Possibly 1960s
Box 4	Folder 24	Bali	1971-05-14-1971-06-06
		Contact sheets
Box 4	Folder 25-27	Bali	1971-05-14-1971-06-06
		Contact sheets
Box 4	Folder 28	Bali colour slides	1971-05-14-1971-06-06
		6 x 6 cm
		Uncut color slides
Box 5	Folder 1-4	Malaysia	1972
		Contact sheets, some with handwritten notes about subjects on verso.
Box 5	Folder 5-7	Java	1972
		Contact sheets
Box 5	Folder 8-9	Bali	1972
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
Box 5	Folder 10-12	Bali	1972
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
Box 5	Folder 13-16	Solomon Islands	1974
		Contact sheets
Box 5	Folder 17-18	Solomon Islands	1974
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
Box 5	Folder 19-21	Java	1974
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
Box 6	Folder 1-2	Indonesia	1978-04-1978-05
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Jakarta, Makassar
Box 6	Folder 3-5	Indonesia	1978-04-1978-05
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Jakarta, Makassar
Box 6	Folder 6	Indonesia	1978-04-1978-05
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
		Scope and Contents Jakarta, Makassar
Box 6	Folder 7-8	Indonesia	1978-04-1978-05
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
		Scope and Contents Jakarta, Makassar
Box 6	Folder 9-11	Singapore, Sumatra	1979-04-01-1979-05-10
		Contact sheets
Box 6	Folder 12-13	Sumatra	1979-04-01-1979-05-10
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
Box 6	Folder 14-16	Salatiga	1979-12-15-1980-01-19
		Contact sheets
Box 6	Folder 17-20	Salatiga	1979-12-15-1980-01-19
		Contact sheets
Box 7	Folder 1-2	Vietnam	1980
		10 x 12.5 cm
Box 7	Folder 3	Laos	1980
		10 x 12.5 cm
Box 7	Folder 4	Burma	1980
		10 x 12.5 cm
Box 7	Folder 5	Bangkok, Vientiane	1980
Box 7	Folder 6	Saigon, Nha Trang, Qui Nhon	1980
		Contact sheets
Box 7	Folder 7	Da Nang, Hue, Hanoi	1980
		Contact sheets
Box 7	Folder 8	Hanoi, Halong Bay	1980
		Contact sheets
Box 7	Folder 9	Pagan, Mandalay, Rangoon	1980
		Contact sheets
Box 7	Folder 10	Material from trip to Laos and Vietnam	1980
		Contact sheets
Box 7	Folder 11-13	Iban, Melugu, Gawai, Antu	1980
		Contact sheets, some separated from full sheet.
Box 7	Folder 14-18	Iban, Land dayaks, Holt	1980
		Contact sheets
Box 7	Folder 19-20	Phillipines	1981-11-10-1981-12-11
		10 x 12.5 cm
Box 8	Folder 2-4	Phillipines	1981-11-10-1981-12-11
		Contact sheets
Box 8	Folder 5-6	Malaysia	1983-06-18-1983-07-24
		9 x 12.5 and smaller
Box 8	Folder 7-8	Malaysia	1983-06-18-1983-07-24
		Contact sheets
Box 8	Folder 9-11	Canberra	1986-1987
		Contact sheets
Box 8	Folder 12-14	Korea	1986-1987
		Color slides, most in mounts, two unmounted
Box 9	Folder 1-3	Sarawak Slides	1949-1969
		7 x 7 cm
Box 9	Folder 4	Sarawak	1949-1969
		16.5 x 22 cm
Box 9	Folder 5	Sarawak	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Original label notes that these were returned from the Australian National Gallery.
Box 9	Folder 6	Sarawak	1949-1969
		20.5 x 26 and smaller
		Scope and Contents Original label notes that these were returned from the Australian National Gallery.
Box 9	Folder 7	Sarawak, Historical portraits reprint	1949-1969
		16.5 x 22 cm and smaller
Box 9	Folder 8	Sarawak	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 9	Folder 9	Sarawak, miscellaneous cuts	1949-1969
		28 x 25 cm and smaller
Box 9	Folder 10	Sarawak, annotated prints	1949-1969
		28 x 25 cm and smaller
Box 9	Folder 11-12	Sarawak stamped prints	1949-1969
		28 x 25 cm and smaller
Box 9	Folder 13	Sarawak	1949-1969
		28 x 25 cm and smaller
Box 10	Folder 1-12	Sarawak Penan	1949-1969
		29.5 x 25 cm
		Scope and Contents Some of the photographs in this set appear in Morrison's publication Sarawak, in the chapter on Penan. These are some of the few finished prints in the collection.
Box 11	Folder 1-5	Sarawak S. Coast	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 11	Folder 6-10	Sarawak Coast	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 11	Folder 11-14	Sarawak S. Coast	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 11	Folder 15-25	Sarawak Coast	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 12	Folder 1-12	Sarawak Coast	1949-1969
		10 x 12.5 cm and smaller
		Scope and Contents Kuching, Bako, Santubong
Box 12	Folder 13-14	Sarawak	1949-1969
		22 x 16.5 cm and smaller
Box 13	Folder 1-3	Sarawak Coast	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 13	Folder 4-8	Sarawak S. Coast	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 13	Folder 9-13	Sarawak Coast	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
		Scope and Contents Includes images of the coast and villages.
Box 13	Folder 14	Prints for the Monash publication in development in Sarawak	1949-1969
		20.5 x 16 cm
Box 13	Folder 15	Sarawak	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 13	Folder 16-17	Sarawak Coast, Iban	1949-1969
		Contact sheets
Box 13	Folder 18	Sarawak	1949-1969
		21 x 16.5 and smaller
		Photographs with notes
		Bound albums
Box 19		Madagascar and Mauritius Kodak albums	1965
		9.5 x 15 cm
		Paper Kodak print albums
Box 19	Folder 1	Loose prints from Madagascar and Mauritius Kodak albums	1965
		9.5 x 15 cm
		Inscriptions verso.
Box 15		Tahiti album	undated
		17 x 21 cm
		Red album, bound by hand.
Box 15		Ankor album	undated
		17 x 21 cm
		Red album, bound by hand.
Box 15		Matu album	undated
		17 x 21 cm
		Red album, bound by hand.
Box 15		The Penan People of Borneo album	undated
		17 x 21 cm
		Red album, bound by hand.
Box 15		Penans of Sarawak	Photographs from 1955-1965
		21.5 x 18.5 cm
		Album bound by hand.
		Scope and Contents Photographs in album taken 1955-1965.
Box 14		Men of the Sea: Tropical Shorelife in Sarawak notebook and photographs	1955-1965
		Journal with photographs adhered on each page, text below.
Box 14		Fishing villages notebook and photographs	1955-1965
		Journal with photographs adhered on each page, text below.
		Negatives
		Negatives are in the original order given them by the Morrisons, arranged by location and subject.
		Processing Information Titles come from Morrison's original box labels.
		Access to negatives restricted to the permission of the curator.
Box 17		Papua New Guinea, Solomons, Philippines	1968-1969
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 2.
Box 17		Indonesia, Java, Sumatra, Bali, Celebes	1971-1978
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 3.
Box 17		Thailand, Angkor, Singapore, Ceylon	1955-1967, 1955-1957, 1967
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 5.
Box 17		Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Salitaga, Sabah	1949-1980, 1949, 1963, 1979-1980
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 6.
Box 17		India, Kashmir	1951-1956, 1951, 1956
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 7.
		No prints exist in the collection for these negatives.
Box 18		Sarawak Agriculture	1955-1963
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 10.
Box 18		Kelabits, Marudi, Baram, Belaga, Brunei	1953-1964
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 11.
Box 18		Sarawak Chinese	1950-1969
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 13.
Box 19		Madagascar, Mauritius	1965
		35 mm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 9.
Box 19		Sarawak Ibans II	1964-1968
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 20.
Box 19		Sarawak Ibans I	1964-1968
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 21.
Box 16		Books
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 22. Morrison notes categories for Sarawak (published 1957), Life in a Longhouse (published 1962), Melagu, Penan set (unpublished), Malay coastal set (unpublished), an unpublished Donald Moore set, and useful additional negatives.
Box 19		Sarawak Coastal Life	undated
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 24.
Box 20		Santubong	1962-1966
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 14.
Box 20		Malaya, Malaysia, Sabah, Brunei, Sarawak, Singapore	1949-1983
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 25.
Box 20		Melanau and Coastal	1948-1962
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 26.
Box 21		Small towns, Sarawak	1947-1966
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 12.
Box 21		Land Dayaks	undated
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 23.
Box 21		Kuching, Sarawak	1955-1965
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatives box 27.
Box 21		Sarawak, People and events around Kuching	1955-1965
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Scope and Contents Morrison negatvies box 28.
Box 18		Muruts, Penan, Some Baram	1950-1969
		6 x 6 cm negatives
Box 16		Selected negatives warranting special attention	undated
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Processing Information Title derived from dividers inside box.
Box 16		Sarawak (selected special), Solomon Islands, Burma, Vietnam, Canberra	undated
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Processing Information Title derived from dividers inside box.
Box 16		Sumatra, Philippines, Indonesia, Sarawak	1978-1981
		6 x 6 cm negatives
		Processing Information Title derived from dividers inside box.
		Other materials
		Zanana and Sabah posters
Box 2		Identity cards and passports	1941-1983
Box 8	Folder 1	Benedict Sandin Text	1980
Box 1	Folder 4	Misc Correspondence and Notes	1969-1973
Box 1	Folder 5	Newspaper clippings and photograph of Sarawak	1987
Box 1		Various logbooks separated from photos
Box 1		Korea, Canberra logbook	1987
		11 x 7 cm
		Orange "pocket notes" book
Box 1		Singapore, Sumatra logbook	1979-04-01-1979-05-10
		11 x 7 cm
		Plaid "Note Book" cover
Box 1		Bali logbook	1971
		22.5 x 17 cm
		"Embassy Exercise Book" on orange cover
Box 1	Folder 1	Loose materials from Bali logbook	1971
Box 1		Bali, Singapore logbook	1971
		22.5 x 17 cm
		"Tudor" text on brown cover
Box 1		Indonesia logbook	undated
		20.5 x 16 cm
		"Exercise book" on cover
Box 1		Malaysia logbook	1983
		20.5 x 16 cm
		Striped red "Olympic" cover
Box 1		Salatiga, Malang logbook	undated
		20.5 x 16 cm
		Striped purple "Olympic" cover
Box 1	Folder 2	Loose materials from Salatiga logbook	1979-12-15-1980-01-19
Box 1	Folder 3	Greeting card from friends in Solomon Islands	1975
Box 16		China and Hong Kong Heritage Calendars	2007-2015
Box 16		Fair Land Sarawak typescript
Box 16		Fair Land Sarawak publication	1976-06
Box 16		"In her view: the photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67," exhibition catalogue, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia	1993

Contents

Hedda Morrison photographs, [ca. 1950-1985]2007-2015. Collection Number: 4516

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

Hedda Morrison photographs, [ca. 1950-1985]2007-2015.
Collection Number: 4516

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library