Chinese Collection (page 84)

Chinese Official
A Chinese official reads a message brought to him by a courier

Chinese Women Shopping
Chinese women shopping

China - Anhing
Chinese boats in the river alongside Anhing with its fortifications and pagoda : unfortunately we have not been able to identify it with any modern city

Mandarins Palace China
A Chinese Mandarins palace - interior court, terrace and garden with pool

Chinese Shrine
A little rustic pagoda outside a village

Joss-House at Ning-Bo
Chinese joss-house, a place of worship where joss-sticks (incense) are burnt, at Ning- bo (previously Ning-po, aka Ning-hsien), Treaty Port opened to European trade 1842

Planting Rice China
Chinese farmers planting rice

Chinese Spring Festival
Spring festival in ancient China, circa 2000 BCE

Tower at Sou-Tcheou-Fou
Leaning pagoda of Sou-Tcheou- Fou, near Shanghai : as is customary with Chinese pagodas, it is covered with porcelain

A White Drawing Room
A white scheme drawing room furnished with floral covered chairs, a piano and chinese style cabinet

Japs Fighting Chinese
Japanese soldiers swim a river in the course of an attack on the Chinese lines

China / Love our Machines
A Chinese factory worker " Masters of our factory, we love our machines"

Racial / China / Warrior 19C
A Tartar warrior of the Chinese army

Racial / China / Hunan C1700
A Chinese couple from Hunan (Honan)

Racial / China / Tschiao Kuo
Tschiao Kuo Fu Dschen, a Chinese lady

Chinese Wedding Dress
A bride in a traditional Chinese wedding dress

Fast Colours
Two 1920s ladies wearing boldly coloured and patterned summer dresses, promenading along a sea front. Both are holding fashionable Chinese parasols

WRECK OF ILTIS 1896
Untergang ( under-going ) of the German Kanonenboot Iltis in a storm off the Chinese coast

Spinning / Shanghai Mill
Chinese women spinning in a Shanghai mill

Djakarta Chinese Quarter
A street in the Chinese quarter of Djakarta

Chinese Acrobats / Arrest
Chinese acrobats, detained by the French police, put on a show for their hosts

Distilling, China
A Chinese distillery

Chinese Stop for Food
Chinese porters stop for their mid-day meal

Chinese Children Eat
Chinese children at their mid-day meal

Eating in China
Chinese workmen (hauliers on canal) stop for their mid-day meal

Racial / China Dancer 1904
Elegant Chinese dancer with a fan in each hand

Chinese Sword Dance performed by a male dancer

Chinese War Junk
Chinese war junk

Pulling Trollies
Chinese workers pulling trollies laden with coal in Kailan, Northern China

Chinese Cart
A Chinese covered cart with an innovative tarpaulin fron to give shade to the horse from the sun

Worcester China Vase
This Worcester china vase makes no attempt to conceal its design origins - shape and ornamentation are both clearly in the Chinese manner

Chinese, Jap Porcelain
Porcelain from the East : a Chinese beaker and teapot, and a Japanese vase and dishes

Worcester China Vase 2
Why import Chinese vases all the way from China when the craftsmen at the Worcester manufactory can produce work like this ?

Chinese Porcelain - 5
Chinese porcelain : two dishes, decors famille rose from the 5th epoch

Chinese Missionary / 1852
Chinese Christian missionary, Candide Hiu

Chinese Eclipse Ceremony
Chinese ceremonies during the eclipse of the sun involving music and reverence

Chinese Blacksmith
A travelling blacksmith in China

Pots and Pans Maker
A Chinese maker of pots and pans

Chinese Blacksmith 2
A Chinese blacksmith at work

Interrogating Witness
A Chinese official questions a witness, held on her knees by an assistant, while a scribe records her testimony

Dispute with China 1
A frontier dispute leads to fighting between China and Russia : Russian peasants flee their village as the Chinese approach

Dispute with China 3
A frontier dispute leads to fighting between China and Russia : the Chinese are on the far bank of the Amur, the Russians on this, seeking to relieve Blagovestchensk

Racial / China / Cut Pigtail
Many young Chinese, wishing to westernise themselves, cut their pigtails

Chinese Fisherman
A Chinese fisherman sets out with his nets, which open out from square folds with weights attached

Chinese Carpenter
A Chinese carpenter carrying a large block of wood on his back

Chinese Dung Collectors
Young children scrape animal droppings off a paved walkway

Rice in China - 12
The Chinese Thanksgiving for a good Harvest

Painting Chinese Lantern
A Chinese lantern painter decorates a cylinder lantern, seated outside in front of a fine building with traditional elaborate roof styling

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