This series consists of Rothstein's work in China as a photographer for the United States Army Signal Corps (1944-1946) and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (hereafter UNRRA, 1946-1947). Subjects include conditions of famine and starvation, the distribution of UNRRA aid in various villages and refugee camps, a camp for Jewish refugees from Europe in Shanghai, individual portraits, temple exteriors and interiors, and the urban and rural landscapes. Photographs have been organized alphabetically by title, and related photographs have been grouped together (i.e. "UNRRA aid, assorted views). The series divided into the following subseries, based on discrete assignments and subject matter: Subseries 1: Starvation and UNRRA Aid, 1946-1947 Subseries 2: Landscape and Built Environment, 1944-1947 Subseries 3: People, 1944-1947 Subseries 4: European Refugees, 1946.
Box 15 Folder 1 [A man with a shovel burying a child in a shallow grave in a rural area in the Kiangsu province or Yunnan province], 1946
Photographic print : 22 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 2 [Boy holding bowl and chopsticks] [2], 1946
Photographic print : 7 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 3 [Boy standing in doorway holding chopsticks], 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 15 Folder 4 [Boy with rice bowl and cat], 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 5 [Delivery of relief flour][3], 1946
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 6 [Delousing, assorted views] [4], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 7 [Famine victim, Heng Yang], 1946
Photographic print : 59 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 8 [Famine victim, Heng Yang], 1946
Photographic print : 35 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 9 [Famine victim, Heng Yang], 1946
Photographic print : 25 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 15 Folder 10 [Famine victims on streets of Heng Yang] [10], 1946
Photographic print : 19 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 11 [Famine victims, assorted] [18], 1946
Photographic print : 31 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 12 [Half-length portrait of a boy lying on mat, holding chopsticks], 1946
Photographic print : 6 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 15 Folder 13 [Medical examinations, assorted views] [6], 1946
Photographic print : 6 items : b&w ; 8 x 10 or smaller
Box 15 Folder 14 [Mother with two young children in sleeping area of dwelling in the Kiangsu Province or Yunnan Province in China], 1946
Photographic print : 5 items : 11 x 14
Box 16 Folder 1 [Two men carrying child to grave], 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 16 Folder 2 [UNRRA aid, assorted views] [27], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 30 items : b&w ; 8 x 10 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 3 Community kitchen, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items ; b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 16 Folder 4 Group portrait, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 5 Naked boy herding goats, Kaifeng, 1946
Photographic print : 9 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 6 [Aerial views of landscape, China] [8], ca. 1944 to 1946
Photographic print : 9 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 7 [Aerial view of terraced fields and roadway with a military vehicle in a mountainous region of the Kiangsu province or Yunnan province in China], ca. 1944 to 1946
Alternative Title: Burma Road
Photographic print : 17 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 8 [Assorted views of architectural exteriors] [8], ca. 1946 to 1947
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 8 x 10 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 9 [Assorted views of the Bund Garden Bridge, Shanghai] [5], 1945
Photographic print : 8 items : b&w ; 8 x 10 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 10 [Assorted views of carved ornamentation, interior of temple, Kunming] [2], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 7 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 11 [Assorted views of waterways, some of the Yangtze River] [16], 1946
Photographic print : 32 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 12 [Field with military vehicle and herd of sheep, mountainous landscape in background], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 16 Folder 13 [Field with pond in foreground], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 16 Folder 14 [Two views of brick ruins] [2], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 16 Folder 15 [Two views of rice field, house in background] [2], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 5 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 16 Folder 16 Sun department store, Nanking road, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 01 [Assorted street scenes] [10], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 15 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 02 [Assorted views, children at orphanage] [5], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 11 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 03 [Boy in window, pair of shoes and basket hanging], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 17 Folder 04 [Boy with chicken, Hungjao], 1946
Photographic print : 18 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 05 Boy with hoe, 1946
Photographic print : 18 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 06 [Chinese soldiers seated in barracks], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 17 Folder 07 [Crowd of displaced persons, Hankou], 1946
Photographic print : 18 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 08 [Elderly man, woman in front of building with dragon façade][2], 1946
Photographic print : 7 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 17 Folder 09 [Family of four in doorway, chicken flapping wings at right], 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 10 [Farmer and wife], 1946
Photographic print : 5 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 11 [Four men seated in a footbath], 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 12 [Three men standing in front of a mural], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 17 Folder 13 [Two cobblers seated, Hankou], 1945-1946
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 17 Folder 14 [Two overhead views of crowds marching at a parade, possibly welcome rally for Chiang Kai Shek, Shanghai] [2], 1945-1946
Photographic print : 7 items : b&w ; 11 x 14
Box 17 Folder 15 [Two views of merchants and customers in a curio shop, Shanghai] [2], 1945-1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 16 [Two views, smiling young school children running out the entrance of a school building in the Kiangsu Province or Yunnan Province in China], 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 17 [Woman pouring water, laundry hanging overhead], ca. 1946-1947
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 17 Folder 18 Woman sifting grains at flour mill, Qingdao, 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 17 Folder 19 [Women and children gathered around statue of dragon, Summer Palace, Beijing], 1946
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4
Box 17 Folder 20 Peddler on bund, China, 1946
Photographic print : 7 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 18 Folder 01 [Children in refugee camp, Shanghai], 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 02 [German refugees seated at table, Shanghai], 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 03 [Two views of exterior of Jewish refugee camp, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 6 items : b&w; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 04 Community Kitchen, refugee camp, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 05 Entrance to Hong Kew refugee camp, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 06 Frau Celia Bass, tuberculosis patient, refugee hospital, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 07 Hong Kew Refugee Camp, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 08 Ernestine Brandt and Emma Schaaf, Jewish refugees from Berlin, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 09 Man and woman cooking, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 10 Medical offices in Hong Kew refugee camp, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 11 x 14 or smaller
Box 18 Folder 11 Recreation hall, refugee camp, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 12 Refugees from Hitler's Europe, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 13 Refugee from Vienna [Frau Kohn], Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 14 Refugees check names of German concentration camp survivors, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 3 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 15 Refugees playing chess, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 4 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 16 Refugees read evacuation notice, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 17 The first 250 Italians to be repatriated under UNRRA's China program are waiting here to board the gaily decorated Eritrea bound for Taranto, Italy [5], 1946
Photographic print : 5 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 18 UNRRA Welfare Worker addresses refugee group, Shanghai, 1946
Photographic print : 2 items : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 19 Woman carrying market basket, 1946
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 20 Woman serving tea, 1946
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10
Box 18 Folder 21 Woman washing pot at outdoor sink, 1946
Photographic print : 1 item : b&w ; 8 x 10