Image No. cn00046

Postcard Data

Size: 141x91mm
Caption: Petits métiers chinois - Un Salon de coiffure / Small chinese pedlars - A barber shop

Publisher:
Publisher's Reference: 167

Stamp: China

Printing Technique: Phototype
Color Nature: B&W
Postcard Particulars: Postmark year erroneous

Printer:

Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Image Author: René Tillot (Probable)
Creation: -1905 (Certain)
Creation Place: (Certain)

Topic: Itinerant barbers waiting for customers

Action: Three men have set up their stool and stove in a north China street and are waiting for customers (or posing for the photographer). Smiling spectators observe the proceedings from around a shop’s entrance, while another man’s action remains unclear. In the back, two dogs stand under a clothesline that someone uses to hide.

Image Particulars: The stool drawers hold the barbers’ tools, and both stove and stool are carried on a bamboo pole (here standing vertically against the stove) twhen moving around.