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Author Archives: Jamie Carstairs
Patience and trust
Sometimes a genre photograph holds a surprise, or a redeeming punctum, as elucidated by Roland Barthes. In this photograph (Ru02-20), taken on a hot dusty street, probably in Peking (Beijing), c.1905, a dog takes advantage of the shade of the … Continue reading
Laundry
These two photographs from unrelated collections show women washing clothes on rocks. Whilst doing their own work together in a communal way, one imagines the women having neighbourly conversations, perhaps even singing. The images have several similarities and may have … Continue reading
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Tagged laundry, Taylor, Wilkinson, women, work, worker
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Seasonal greetings!
Compliments of the season to all friends of ‘Visualising China‘.
Christmas Quiz
This intriguing montage photograph (DH-s019) of forty sketched portraits of foreigners and one photographic portrait, is labelled “PEKING CHRISTMAS 1877”. Their faces can be studied more closely at DH-s020, DH-s021 and DH-s022. Most of the photographs in the Henderson collection … Continue reading
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Tagged 1877, Beijing, Christmas, Henderson, portrait, sketches, user engagement
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Luoyang Bridge, Quanzhou, showing oyster beds
This magnificent and famous stone beam bridge (Wan’an Bridge) in Qhanzhou, Fujian province was first built in the eleventh century; it has been restored many times since then and still stands. The elegant granite ship-shaped piers cut the rapid current … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, boat, bridge, Henderson, oyster
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Back to the past
Prior to 1949, and again more recently, foreign tourists avidly visited the marvellous sights in China. The tourist trail would include the Ming Tombs, just forty kilometres north of Peking (Beijing), here being explored in the 1920s, by donkey in … Continue reading
Entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque, Peking
To mark the Islamic New Year, here is part of a rare photograph of the entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque [回回营清真寺遗存], in Donganfu Hutong, near Beihai Park, Beijing, taken about 1870. The image shown above, is a cropped version to … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Beijing, Bowra, Islam, Muslim, religion, road
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Sending up a balloon, c.1925
Modern marketing – attracting attention to a product in a new way. Here in 1925, the British American Tobacco Company are sending up a balloon to advertise ‘Hatamen’ cigarettes (Pa01-33). The location is not verified, but it may well be … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, balloon, cigarettes
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OOOOOlympics!
Here’s five historical images from China, for the Games:
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged rowing, shooting, sport, swimming, tennis, weight-lifting
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