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Phipps, Ann Collection

A selection of 234 images in the Ann Phipps Collection are currently online - from four albums (HPC refs: Ph01, Ph02, Ph03, and Ph04) and loose prints (HPC ref: Ph-s). The albums were compiled by Margaret Ann Patricia Phipps (1907-1992), a niece of Sir Miles Lampson (1st Baron Killearn), British Minister to China between 1926 and 1933 and High Commissioner to Egypt and Sudan, 1934. The albums contain photos, documents, and ephemera - souvenirs of Ann Phipps’ visits to China in 1928-29 and 1932-33 when Sir Miles was the British Minister to China. The albums are now held by Special Collections, SOAS, University of London.