Buying fruit from a street seller, Beijing
Collection
Identifier
Ru-s009
Copyright
© 2008 Penelope Fowler
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ru-s009. No caption on this photograph. The shop in the background is a shoe shop. This photograph by John David Zumbrun (Camera Craft Co.) was published as the frontispiece in ‘Two Gentlemen of China’ by Lady Hosie (London, 1924) and captioned: ‘THE AMAH, OR SERVING WOMAN, CHAFFERING WITH THE STREET HAWKER. Although she is no longer young, she is proud of her business acuteness, as also of her small feet and the neat way in which she has bound them’.
Caption on photograph
807
Location
Estimated Date
1900-1915
Photographer
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
