Take a Day Off & Browse the Malcolm Rosholt Collection

Wonderful that the people at Visualising China have scanned and uploaded the photographic archive of Malcolm Rosholt…a little detail below and at this link….do take a look…

Today we are able to unveil a significant new addition to our collections that is now available for viewing: the photographs of Malcolm Rosholt. Born in Wisconsin in 1907, Malcolm Rosholt arrived in China in 1931 with the intention of undertaking graduate work at Yenching University in Beijing. Instead he parlayed some journalistic experience into what became a seven-year stint as a staff writer on the American-run China Press newspaper in Shanghai. He returned for a few months in late 1940, and in October 1944 arrived in Kunming assigned to work with the US Fourteenth Air Force. The majority of the 1,086 photographs date from his earlier stint, and in particular from the August-November 1937 conflict where, as Rosholt later put it, ‘I covered the battlefronts and press conferences and took a stack of pictures with the Leica, some of which were used in the China Press and others I sold to the Associated Press and New York Times.’

Of course the eagle eyed among you will know that i slipped Rosholt onto the cover of my history of the foreign press corps in China, Through the Looking Glass, nearly a decade ago – the man with the dapper suit and stick amid the rubble of a bombed section of Shanghai…