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  • Collection: Photographs

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Two Chinese men in fron of brick building with long-handled tools to make balls of coal. English advertisement for pens in windows, along with streamers in Chinese characters. "Making coal balls" written in English on the reverse side.

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B & W photo of street scene of man selling chestnuts from a wheelbarrow. Assorted people and two rickshaws shown. On reverse of photo - selling chestnuts Chinese lettering on building in background.

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Street market with brick buildings in background. Basket vendors in right foreground. Merchandise partially sheltered by two fabric sunshacks. "Bazaar" written on the reverse side in English.

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Automobile with one dummy on each running board. Chinese soldiers on one side and numerous civilians around the auto. Early 20th century

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Terraced rice fields on hillside. "Great Wall" and "Cultivated fields" written in English on the reverse side.

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Barefoot man in tattered clothing, holding a tin pail. "Beggar" written in English on the reverse side.

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Black and white photo of two small children. The older is helping the younger to eat.

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Black and white photo of wooden walkway by the lake at the Summer Palace. Colonnade at the Summer Palace is written on back of photograph.

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B & W photograph of bearded Chinese man holding a falcon. On reverse of photo - "priest"

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B & W photo of street scene, rickshaw in center, puller wearing head mask with white face, flanked by two men. Embroidered standard behind rickshaw followed by white costumed procession. Caption on back of photo - funeral scenes