A 'Baby Tower', Ningbo

A 'Baby Tower', Ningbo

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bo01-096. Unwanted babies, or the bodies of dead babies whose parents were too poor to bury the deceased baby, could be abandoned at a ‘baby tower’. See Mx01-138 and Mx04-065. See also https://chinesedeathscape.supdigital.org/read/cradle-to-grave.

Caption in album or on mount

“Baby Tower” Ningpo

Location

Ningbo

Estimated Date

1870

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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