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FROM VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3, WINTER 2006: To accompany Jean Elliott Johnson's article "China 1905-1908: Harrison Sacket Elliott's Letters and Photographs."

EDITOR'S NOTE: We have included larger photographs for those EAA subscribers who have a copy of the Winter 2006 issue (Volume 11:3) and would like to download them for classroom use in conjunction with Jean Johnson’s essay on her father’s experiences in early 20th-Century China. We thank Jean Johnson, and Ruth Tonkiss-Cameron of the Burke Library Archives at Union Theological Seminary, for providing EAA subscribers with access to the photographs.

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• Na Tung’s Mother’s Funeral. The amount and quality of items buried with the coffin, seen just emerging through the gate, indicated the family’s status.
• Elliott at a Chinese Banquet.

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• Chinese soldiers drilling in Kiukian (Jiujiang), Kiangsi (Jiangxi) Province.
• Wheelbarrow coolie watching his rival—the train. Although the wheelbarrow, a Chinese invention, was being used as early as the third century CE, no evidence exists of the wheelbarrow in the West until the thirteenth century.
• Two Chinese surveying near the Great Wall for the new Peking-Kalgan (Beijing-Zhangjiakou) railway, the first built by Chinese engineers.

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• The punishment for highway robbery was crucifixion or decapitation, the ultimate “loss of face.”
• Rows of stalls for candidates taking the exams for the second degree. In this examination hall there were eighteen thousand stalls; eighteen thousand people could take the examinations at the same time with each person having an individual stall.
• Newsbay selling Peking daily papers at a railway station on the Hankow-Peking Railroad.

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• A handmade mimeograh machine in the Anglo-Chinese High School.
• Female students writing Chinese in Roman script at Hinghua Women’s School.
• Beggars who have been cleaned up and are being taught trades.

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• Opium den in Shanghai, January 1906. “Out of eleven Shensi (Shaanxi) people, ten smokes.”
• Closed opium den, June 1907.

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• Long view of Min River Irrigation and Flood Control Project.
• A steel factory in Hanyang.
• A small child carefully brushes a sack of grain in hopes of collecting a little flour dust. People tried to survive on sawdust cakes of ground leaves, bark and grass.
• Refugees waiting for flour at a famine relief station.

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• The pilot signaling to the steerman.
• Trackers pulling a houseboat upstream through the Yangtze rapids.

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• A British-American tobacco company ad.
• The same ad displayed on a farmhouse wall in the interior of the country. The cigarette was one of the “gifts” the West gave to China.