Image No. cn00056

Postcard Data

Size: 141x91mm
Caption: Hankow. - Vieille mendiante. / Old chinese beggar. / Alte Bettlerin.

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Printing Technique: Phototype
Color Nature: B&W

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Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Image Author: Bernard (Assumed)
Creation Place: (Assumed)

Topic: Old beggar woman

Action: The woman is seated in the middle of the street in the foreign settlement, as shown by the sidewalk and Western shutters on windows. She has no right foot. Near her are a low basket and long tobacco pipe. Two men pass by, one looking at her. Two other men are seated in a door step doing some kind of mending. Shop signs are hung across the street.

Image Particulars: The pipe was probably provided by the photographer: it can’t be the woman as it is too long to light without assistance.