Vintage Korea

First group of a great collection. Most are from Cornell University Archives.

 A merchant and his friends on a cold day, ca. 1904

  

 An ox market in Korea, ca. 1904

  

 Bullock or pony-drawn carts, loaded with firewood or grass 

for household fires, filing through the streets, ca. 1904

  

 Children climb on a statue outside of one of Korea's grand palaces, ca. 1904

  

 Fulling clothes was a women's chore done usually in the evenings, after 

the kitchen work was finished for the day. When the clothes were still 

slightly damp after washing, they were folded and fulled on a flat board. ca. 1904

  

 Group of Korean men, in full scholar's attire, ca. 1904

  

 Korean boatman

  

 Korean laborer and middle class in front of store, ca. 1904

  

 Korean men with sunglasses, ca. 1904

  

 Korean scholar posing on stone animal at Yi king's tomb, 1905

  

 Line of children (orphans?) with American and Korean flags, ca. 1904

  

Min Yong-hwan's state funeral procession, ca. 1904