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[Landscape of Chinese village]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04546.151 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1900 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph : sepia Height: 26 cm, Width: 36.7 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on mount verso reads " 100 miles above Hankon. Rice fields in the foreground, and "tea country" back on the hills."

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