Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Mx04-065. Cadbury Research Library archive finding number: DA26/2/2/3 (John Preston Maxwell Papers). This is a digital copy of an image on a post card, which has been mounted into the photograph album. The text under the image printed on the post card is as follows: "CHINCHEW : BABY PIT (for Unwanted Children)." Unwanted babies, or the bodies of dead babies whose parents were too poor to bury the deceased baby, could be abandoned at a Baby Pit. See Bo01-096 and Mx01-138. See also https://chinesedeathscape.supdigital.org/read/cradle-to-grave.

Caption in album or on mount

CHINCHEW : BABY PIT (for Unwanted Children).

Location

Quanzhou

Estimated Date

1900s

Tags

• baby
• children
• infanticide
• Cadbury
• Maxwell
• Chinchew
• abandon
• birth

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Cadbury Research Library (Special Collections), University of Birmingham

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