Black and white lantern slide showing a street barber and his young assistant at work in a courtyard in Canton (Guangdong). Customers sit on low stools whilst the barbers shave the front of their heads. A woman sits washing in a large basin in the back corner of the courtyard, and a man stands in the background carrying a shoulder pole. One of the customers has a long queue, suggesting that this photograph was taken before 1912, after which the long plait of hair worn by men in the Qing dynasty was considered sometimes as outmoded and often as a dangerous sign of support for the old regime. The slide is marked with the initials 'M.Y' This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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