Studio portrait of a Chinese woman and a Manchu woman, with a pot of chrysanthemums

Studio portrait of a Chinese woman and a Manchu woman, with a pot of chrysanthemums

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ru02-59. Photo from an album (UoB reference Ru02). No caption for this photograph in the album. The woman on the left, with bound feet, is Chinese. The woman on the right, with her hair done in a liangbatou (兩把頭), is Manchu. This photograph may have been taken in, or near, Peking (Beijing). See also Ru02-41 (same Manchu woman, same studio, same chrysanthemums).

Estimated Date

1905

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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