Mid-day meal at a street food kitchen, Peking

Mid-day meal at a street food kitchen, Peking

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bk04-17. Source: 'The Pageant of Peking' by Donald Mennie (A.S.Watson and Co., Shanghai, 1920). On the building in the background are two advertisements for Jintan (仁丹) 'Admiral' silver-coated round pills, marketed in China from 1908 by Morishita & Co Apothecary, Osaka, Japan, as a cure-all for various ailments including halitosis.

Caption in album or on mount

XVII. THE MID-DAY MEAL

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1915-1920

Photographer

Mennie, Donald

Material

Book

Media

Black and white photograph

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