Vintage China

Greatest of China's statesmen - Li Hung Chang in the 

court of his yamen, Tientsin, China, 1901

  

Natives at breakfast, movable chow shop, Canton, 1919

 

Newly married couple dining together for the first time, Canton, China, 1919

 

Rich merchants dining with the singing girls, Peking, China, 1901

 

Some of China's solemn daughters at recreation--

recess at So. Gate Presbyterian Mission School, Shanghai, 1901

Vintage China

 A Chinese fish market, Huai An, China, 1928

  

 An enterprising ferry company on the Pei Ho river, China, 1901

  

 China's "common carrier" - her substitute for 

railways, a "camel square" in Peking, China, 1901

  

 Chinese Musicians [children], Canton, China, 1919

  

Manchurian ladies at tea and cards, Peking, China, 1902

  

Source: Library of Congress Stereograph Collection

Old Peking

Another set of photos from ca. 1879 of Peking (Beijing) and surrounding areas, from the Cornell archives. Previous set here.

Old Peking

These photos of Peking (now Beijing) and its environs are from the Cornell University Archives and date to around 1879. Notice the "ghost people" in many of the photos.

Hedda Morrison

 Two women, Nanking

  

 Typical food market with fresh produce vendors and fixed stalls, 

Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 View of beach with a few anchored sampans close to shore, 

Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, 19446-47

  

 Woman guides her bullock-drawn plough across 

a harvested paddy-field, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

 Woman seated on the ground sorting produce, 

Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Woman with a child sorting firewood, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Woman with pile of burlap, Nanking

  

 Women laborers shifting building sand with Victoria Harbour 

in the background, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Workers in a mixed goods store, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

 Young boy minds his siblings, Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

   

 Young girl on the beach, wearing a tunic and a straw hat, 

carries her brother on her back, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

Young mother carrying a child on her back 

in the market, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Hedda Morrison

 Street vendor

  

Street cooking, Nanking

  

Street market in Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, 1946-47

 

 Street scene, Nanking

  

 Street scene, Nanking

  

 Street scene, Nanking

  

 Street scene, Nanking

  

 Street vendor with brooms

  

 Terraced balconies with wrought-iron railings above shophouses, 

Western District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Three Hakka women carrying backets suspended from long poles 

across their shoulders, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

 Two girls in a small boat

  

 Two girls with a basket of fish, Nanking

  

Two Tanka women rowing in a sampan, Hong Kong, 1946-47

Hedda Morrison

 Peasant woman, vicinity of Nanking

  

 Peasants drying rice in the lowlands, New Territories, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

 People with camels

  

 Planting rice, vicinity of Nanking

  

 Produce vendors, Nanking

  

 Rooftops, Nanking

  

 Sampans in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Seated man amid baskets of fish and hanging dried fish, 

Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Seated woman selling bundles of incense in the 

Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Shopkeeper attends to a customer, Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

  

 Shrimp paste spread out on large, circular receptacles, Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, 1946-47

  

Some kind of farm work, vicinity of Nanking

[anyone know what these people are doing?]