| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 5
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| Summary: |
Includes town and street scenes. Groups include: flood and famine victims; stilt walkers. Other people include: a blind fortune-teller; girl carrying her baby brother; a "passing traveller"; blind girls carrying water; the "stilt merchant". Events featured include: demonstration of the merchants' union; a "celebration". Other activities featured include: a peep-show; reading the news pinned up on walls; a wayside meal; shoeing a mule; "drama on fair day". Other places featured include: grain market; the courtyard of an inn; potteries; a street in Canton [Guangzhou]; a dyers shop, Hangchow [Hangzhou]. Also includes: a paper horse-rider for funerals; wall advertisements; flood relief huts; water well; hair-styles; Chinese coins; paper houses and decorations.
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| Previous numbers: |
u(i), u(ii), u(iii), u(iv), u(v), u(vi), u(vii), u(viii), u(ix)
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| Extent: |
52 black and white and sepia prints/postcards on 9 pieces of paper (2 prints appears to be missing from sheets)
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| Access status: |
Open
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| Copyright: |
Copyright possibly held by Council for World Mission |
| File number: |
23
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| Format: |
Archive
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