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What makes a girl unmarriageable?

avezink Aug 07, 2020 15:53

Large feet!

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1870s, 1871, marriages, shanghai, women, prostitution

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"She is guaranteed a virgin, never betrothed..." (1871)

avezink Aug 06, 2020 15:46

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John Thomson's photographs of Shanghai (1871)

avezink Aug 04, 2020 13:46

...are generously presented at the Wellcome Collection. The clarity of the 150-year-old images is amazing: you can read all the names on the Ever-Victorious Army memorial!

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1870s, archive, 1871, photography, monument, bund

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