Three Chinese Ladies, Peking, Penchili province, China.

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Three Chinese Ladies, Peking, Penchili province, China. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869. Three women beside a balcony, with their backs to the camera showing their hairstyles. One of them, sitting on the balcony railing, has artificially deformed feet.

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Manchu ladies, Peking. Bears Thomson's negative number: "699"

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