The Holmes Welch Collection at University of Wisconsin Madison

While I was at University of Wisconsin Madison two weeks ago, I visited their Chinese collection and came across the Holmes Welch collection. Holmes Welch (Chinese name: Yuchi Han 尉遲酣)  is an influential scholar in the field of Chinese Buddhism and people can feel the impact of his works even today. Here is his obituary in New York Time. John Fairbanks also wrote one at Journal of Asian Studies. His major work includes:

The Parting of the Way: Lao Tzu and the Taoist Movement. 1957.
The Practice of Chinese Buddhism: 1900 - 1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
The Buddhist Revival in China. With a section of photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Taoism: The Parting of the Way. 1971.
Buddhism Under Mao. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion. 1979.

Below is a short introduction from the website of the Holmes Welch collection.
Holmes Hinkley Welch (1924-1981) was a scholar of Daoism and Chinese Buddhism, educated at Harvard. During World War II, Welch served in the Russian sector of the State Department's Office of European Affairs. He moved to Hong Kong in 1957, where he served as a political officer in the office of the consulate general until 1959. Welch wrote and edited five more books on Daoism and Chinese Buddhism and taught at Harvard and Yale.

His photos are also digitized and available online. See descriptions below.

Holmes Hinkley Welch (1921-1981) was a twentieth century eminent scholar on modern Chinese religions, especially Buddhism. After Welch's death, his family donated his library collection to Memorial Library, the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This collection includes different materials and media, among which are hundreds of photographs, where most have never been published or circulated. In an effort to make these photographs more accessible, a digitization project of selected photographs is underway.

The collection of digitized photographs is mostly about religious life in China and Hong Kong, between the 1930s and 1960s. The images capture different aspects of the Chinese Buddhist monastic life as well as Chinese Buddhist architecture.

The other images in this collection portray village and city lives, street scenes, and Chinese architecture.