Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL03-120. Shop sign: "Han Foo Hsing / Tailors / Manufacture in Chinese ana Foreign Army ana Navy Uniform Clothes". Shop signs for toothpaste and engraving for signature seals. Also three advertisements for Jintan (仁丹) 'Admiral' silver-coated round pills, marketed in China from 1908 by Morishita & Co Apothecary, Osaka, Japan, as a cure-all for various ailments including halitosis. See BL03-108 and BL03-112 (photographs of the same dead man).

Location

Hankou

Estimated Date

1916

Tags

• corpse
• clothes
• shop
• medicine
• advert
• advertisement
• Hankou
• Wuhan
• advertising
• death
• tailor
• Love
• dead
• commerce
• admiral
• Jintan

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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