35mm slide: House interior with group members. Peter has ‘Shaping’ rather than ‘Shapang’ here, probably a reference to the village they were leaving.
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Pole at entrance to Da Zhai village. 12th April.

35mm slide: Same village

Photograph: representatives of the Horniman Museum and London County Council during the ceremony for the modernisation of the South Hall, 1965

Guide for the use of Visitors to The Horniman Museum and Library, 1904
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