Beauty old Postcards From Early China
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    • Reclining on a bench
    • Standing
    • Sit and face to right side
  • Detail of the Chinese Beauty
    • Make up
    • Manchurian Hair Styles
    • High Collars
    • Bound Feet
  • Hidden Clues in Postcards
    • Floor Coverings
    • Cups in Postcards
    • Clocks in Postcards
    • Things Held in the Hands >
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      • Flowers
      • Fans
      • Books
      • Mirrors in the Pictures
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Floor Decoration

The images below show different kinds of flooring in the photographic studio where the pictures were taken. From these old postcards of Chinese beauties, we can see they always stand on a carpet or tiled floor - not bare wood.
From the different patterns of the floor we can sometimes distinguish in which photo studio they took the pictures. Perhaps the women might all have lived in the same city.

This is a kind of "Photoarchaeology" or documentary research from different pictures where we find the clues linking one beauty postcard to another.

You too can be a photoarchaeologist! Look at the floors in the pictures below. What can you find out?
Can you see anything that we have missed?
If so ... you can contact us.
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