PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoTravelers and their camels, China, 19th centurylemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up190
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minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 days agohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-34697724 Beijing, some time in the 1870s or 1880s. I suppose by the nature of him being a traveller with a whole caravan of camels, he’s more likely than most to be very far from home
minus-squareoceanAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoThanks for that link! Duke University has a similarly cool collection from the same period. Beijing makes sense too. Plenty of Tibetans there.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-34697724
Beijing, some time in the 1870s or 1880s. I suppose by the nature of him being a traveller with a whole caravan of camels, he’s more likely than most to be very far from home
Thanks for that link!
Duke University has a similarly cool collection from the same period.
Beijing makes sense too. Plenty of Tibetans there.