Related collections at the Powerhouse Museum:

Alastair Morrison collection of Japanese netsuke.

Alastair Morrison collection of Hindu and Buddhist bronzes.

Alastair Morrison research library of books relating to China, the photography of China, Chinese crafts, customs and culture, Chinese toggles, Japanese netsuke, Hindu and Buddhist bronzes.

Other related collections

Hedda Morrison's collection of negatives that relate to China, together with 29 thematic albums of her China photographs, are held in the collection of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA.

Hedda Morrison's collection of negatives that relate to Southeast Asia are held in the collection of the Division of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, USA.

Hedda Morrison's collection of negatives that relate to Australia are held in the collection of the National Library of Australia, Canberra. The collection includes portraits of Hedda and Alastair Morrison and 24 albums of Hedda's views of Australia, with a focus on the Australian Capital Territory.

A group of 54 exhibition prints that relate to South-East Asia and one of an Australian eucalyptus tree are in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA holds an album of Hedda Morrison's China photographs.

Hedda Morrison oral history

The National Library of Australia holds transcripts of oral history interviews with Alastair Morrison, conducted by Edward Stokes in 2000, 2003 and 2004.


Further reading

In her view: the photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67

Catalogue of the Asiatic library of Dr. G. E. Morrison, The oriental library, Tokyo, 1924. Library of Alastair Morrison's father.

Arlington, L. C. & Lewisohn, W. In search of Old Peking, Oxford University Press New York, 1987.

Cammann, Schuyler. 'Chinese belt toggles', Oriental art, vol 8 no 2, summer 1962, pp 72-78.

Cammann, Schuyler. 'Toggles and toggle wearing', South-western journal of anthropology, vol 16 no 4, winter 1960, pp 72-78.

De Sager, Walter A. Making pottery, The Studio Publications, London & New York, 1934. (Photographs by Hedda Morrison)

Eberhard, Wolfram & Morrison, Hedda. Hua Shan: the Taoist sacred mountain in west China, its scenery, monasteries and monks, Vetch and Lee Ltd, Hong Kong, 1973.

Ennis, Helen, 'Hedda Morrison'. Art monthly, no 50, June 1992, pp 14-15.

Hoffman, Alfred and Morrison, Hedda. Nanking, Verlag von Max Noessler & Co. Shanghai, 1945.

Jose, Nicholas. 'Romances of Peking', The journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, vol 3 no 2, June 1994, pp 9-11.

Kates, George N. The years that were fat: Peking 1933-1940, 1952. Reprinted Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1988.

Kates, George N & Morrison, Hedda. Chinese household furniture, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1948.

Lo, Huimin. 'The G. E. Morrison papers', British Library occasional papers; 10: Chinese studies, The British Library, London, 1998, pp 15-151. Papers of Alastair Morrison's father.

Lum, Raymond. The other 'Morrison of Peking: Hedda Morrison and her photographs of China. Presentation at the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 2000.

Martinique, Edward, Chinese traditional bookbinding: a study of its evolution and techniques, Taiwan, 1983. (Hedda contributed a number of photographs.)

Morrison, Alastair. Fair land Sarawak, Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, New York, 1993.

Morrison, Alastair. The bird fancier: a journey to Peking, Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2001.

Morrison, Hedda. A photographer in Old Peking, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1985.

[Morrison, Hedda] Molisun, Heda, transl. Dong Jianzhong. Yang jingtou li de lao Beijing, Beijing chubanshe, Beijing, 2001 [Chinese translation of Hedda Morrison's 'A photographer in Old Peking')

Morrison, Hedda. Children of Melugu, a bulletin for schools, Department of Education, Wellington, New Zealand 1969.

Morrison, Hedda. 'Craftsmen in a harsh environment', Arts of Asia, March-April 1982, pp 87-95.

Morrison, Hedda. 'Educating the peoples of Sarawak', The Crown colonist, January 1950, pp 36-37.

Morrison, Alastair. 'Hedda Morrison in Peking: a personal recollection', East Asian history, Australian National University, Canberra, no 4, Dec 1992, pp 105-114.

Morrison, Hedda. 'Jungle journeys in Sarawak', The national geographic magazine, no 109, May 1956, pp 710-736.

Morrison, Hedda. Life in a longhouse, Borneo Literature Bureau, Kuching, Sarawak, 1962.

Morrison, Hedda. 'Making books in China', Canadian geographic journal, No. 3, December 1949, pp 234-245.

Morrison, Hedda. 'Photographer in Old Peking', Arts of Asia, vol 9 no 3, May-June 1979.

Morrison, Hedda. Sarawak, Donald Moore Press, Singapore, 1965.

Morrison, Hedda. 'Some musical instruments of China', Arts of Asia, May-June, 1983, pp 83-95.

Morrison, Hedda, 'The lost tribe of China', Arts of Asia, May-June 1980, pp 82-91.

Morrison, Hedda. 'Tribal crafts of Borneo', Arts of Asia, Jan-Feb 1972, pp 61-66.

Morrison, Hedda. Travels of a photographer in China 1933-1946, Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1987.

Morrison, Hedda and Alastair. 'Chinese toggles: a little known folk art', Arts of Asia, March-April 1986, pp 68-74.

Morrison, Hedda, Wright, Leigh and Wong, KF. Vanishing world: the Ibans of Borneo, Weatherhill, New York, 1972.

Plater, Diana. 'Hedda Morrison: pioneer photographer', ITA magazine, vol 3 issue 3, 1991, pp 73-82.

Pohlmann, Ulrich & Schentle, Rudolf. Lehrjahre, Lichtjahre: die Munchner Fotoschule 1900-2000, Munchner Stadtmuseum Fotomuseum, Munich, 2000.

Roberts, Claire. 'Hedda Morrison 1908-1991', The journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia, vol 1 no 2, March 1992, p 7.

Roberts, Claire ed. 'In her view: Hedda Morrison's photographs of Peking, 1933-46', East Asian history, no 4, December 1992 pp 81-104.

Roberts, Claire ed. In her view: the photographs of Hedda Morrison in China and Sarawak 1933-67, Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 1993.

Roberts, Claire. 'Hedda Morrison's Jehol', East Asian history, no 22, December 2001, pp 1-128.

Steichen, Edward. The family of man, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955, p 112.

Stokes, Edward. Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong photographs and impressions 1946-47, The Hong Kong Conservation Photography Foundation, 2005.

Warner, John, Chinese papercuts, Hong Kong, 1978.

92/1414-328 Photograph, 'Young boy wearing a Mongolian hat', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-193 Photograph, 'Paper making by the traditional method', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-297 Photograph, 'Seller of coloured paper lanterns and whistles', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-216 Photograph, 'Feather duster seller', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946 92/1414-292 Photograph, 'Antiquarian bookshop', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.
92/1414-212 Photograph, 'Street scene in the outer Chinese city', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-331 Photograph, 'Kings' tombs on the outskirts of Peking', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-228 Photograph, 'Burning incense to the city god at the Chenghuang Temple', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-207 Photograph, 'Young woman from the outer suburbs of Peking with a Southern Chinese style hairstyle', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1936. 92/1414-315 Photograph, 'Camel train transporting coal from Mentougou in the Western Hills', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.
92/1414-214 Photograph, 'Funeral procession', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-238 Photograph, 'Imperial gateway to the Temple of Heaven', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-197 Photograph, 'Hard wood furniture maker using a traditional drill', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-281 Photograph, 'Cloisonné enamel workshop', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-192 Photograph, 'Itinerant barber', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.
92/1414-263 Photograph, 'Flowering plum blossom at Zhongnan hai', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-249 Photograph, 'Rickshaw puller having a nap', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-242 Photograph, 'North-west corner tower of the outer city wall', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946 92/1414-201 Photograph, 'Man with a hand drum selling needles and sewing thread', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-202 Photograph, 'Lacquer carving workshop', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.
92/1414-313 Photograph, 'Spring fields on the outskirts of Peking', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-250 Photograph, 'Young boy', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-293 Photograph, 'Repairing an antique scroll prior to remounting', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-46. 92/1414-210 Photograph, 'Decorative street signs for a cake shop', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-208 Photograph, 'Young acrobat at Tianqiao market', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.