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Title
Periodical vendor setting out his wares on a cobblestone street in China, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a periodical vendor setting out his wares on a cobblestone street in China, ca.1900. A man in a silk shirt crouches in front of a sheet on which he has laid a variety of periodical and book stacks, a long braid of hair hanging down his back. In the background, a second man loads his own wares in front of a row of windows.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negative, photographic print, b&w
9 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30560
USC-1-1-1-14111 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12243
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30560
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12243.jpg
Subject
China
Chinese periodicals
Chinese
Street vendors
Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
China
Source
1-222- [Microfiche number]
12243 [Accession number]
CHS-12243; unid-113 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 113 [Identifying number]

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