"Lost China: The Photographs of Leone Nani"

Fabulous portraits by Italian missionary Father Leone Nani who lived in China in 1903-1914. The details of early twentieth-century costume are a particular delight.

Students:

Actors:

in special stage shoes.

Landlords (more like thugs):

These guys are pretty menacing. Except their boots...

Bourgeois couple.

And a really graceful artisan...

...with lotus feet.

Tags: 1900s, book, china, photo

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"Lost China: The Photographs of Leone Nani"

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