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61002 twin 1900 photographs : "A Chinese Saw Mill, Pekng, China"
Original 1900 photographs on card stock depicting two Chinese laborers sawing wood, entitled "12014 -- A Chinese Saw Mill, Pekng, China". Card stock reads, in printed ink:
"Keystone View Company, Manufacturers & Publishers. Copyright 1900 by B. LeSingley. Meadville, Pa. St Louis, Mo. San Francisco, Cal. Toronto, Can. New York, N.Y London, England."
Back of card stock reads:
"(56) China is still in the middle Ages, and trying madly to stop the centuries. The Chinese saw is a fair sample of a hundred things Chinese that are the very reverse of our western notions. The blade of the saw is at right angles to the handle. Everything is topsy-turvy. The Chinaman's intellect resides in his stomach, where our affections are often said to be. His books begin at the end and end at the beginning; foot-notes are put at the top. Men wear bracelets and women are without gloves. The women wear trousers and men often dress in petticoats.
"A bride wails at her wedding, whether at leaving her mother or going to her mother-in-law is not told. A man presents his aged and honorable father with a coffin, and by so doing shows himself most filial. White is the color for mourning. Games are played with the toes. They whiten their shoes instead of blackening them. The Chinese compass points to the south. They put their family names first, as we do in directories. They turn their fractions upside down and say thens-seven. Of course we are just as contrary as the Chinese, from their point of view.
"Let us approach the unapproachable Dragon's Throne."
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