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Slide 19

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"This shows a street scene in Peking about 1912. The white clothing indicates a funeral. Magnification of the placards being carried would solve the mystery. In the distance is the Von Kettler Arch which China built unser pressure from Germany in Memory of the German ambassador killed there by the Boxers about 1910. A rickshaw is seen. Man has feet apart: strenth may be a stooping man lifting a heavy pole:cart shows wheels, axle, box looked at from above."

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