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Description
Photograph of "Coolie" laborers smoking and resting on a rooftop in China, ca.1900. Six men are shown in pants and tunics, smoking from long pipes. Three at left are seated on a slab of eroding brick while a fourth stands in front of them. Two others stand to the right. The roofs of other buildings can be seen in the distance. "Coolie" was the term used by a foreign shipping agency to denote a native laborer.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negative, photographic print, b&w 9 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints negatives (photographic) photographs
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