Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os04-018. Photo from an album (UoB reference Os04) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference MS 380 876/4). Set up (or posed) by models for the photographer, who may well have been William Saunders. See Hv38-25 and Ru01-100 (another print of this cameo format photo).

Caption in album or on mount

Cangue'd Prisoners

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1865-1870

Tags

• punishment
• crime
• justice
• torture
• cangue
• tcha
• pillory
• stocks
• humiliation
• Oswald

Photographer

Saunders, William

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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