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Jinrikisha Rickshaw Woman Peking China Camera Craft Curt Teich 1920s Postcard ✍️ Message on the Postcard
Back:
Peking June 20.
Dear Ewart: I am now resting from a little jaunt and reading. This card is a photograph you can get in a Book Shop for about ten Chiao [?] times for your family.
🖼️ Information on the Front of the Postcard
📝 In-Scene Text
On the right building/wall, vertical Chinese characters: 弘白運泰西呢絨洋料 (Hóng Bái Yùn Tài Xī Ní Róng Yáng Liào), which translates to something like \"Hong Bai Yun Tai Western Woolen and Foreign Materials\" (likely a shop name).
On the left building/wall, partially visible vertical Chinese characters: 粵做各 (Yuè Zuò Gè...), which translates to \"Cantonese make various...\"
🏢 Publisher Information
Not visible
💬 Captions
A JIN-RIKI-SHA.
📬 Information on the Back of the Postcard
📮 Address
Ewart G. Loomis, Jr.
275 Montclair Ave
Newark
New Jersey
U. S. A.
📅 Postmark & Stamp
**Postmarks:**
* A circular postmark is prominently displayed over the stamps.
* **Location:** PEKING
* **Date:** JUL 12 1915
* **Time/Other Markings:** A number \'3\' is visible in the center. The Chinese character \'叁\' (san, meaning three) is at the top of the inner circle.
* A heavy rectangular cancellation mark, partially legible, appears over the stamps.
* **Location:** The word \"ERIN\" is visible in the upper right portion over the green stamp.
* **Date/Time:** Not visible.
* **Postmark location appears to be PEKING (China) but also includes an \"ERIN\" transit cancel which is less common for mail from China to the US.**
**Stamps:**
* **Left Stamp (Orange):** Denomination is 1 Cent (or Fen, indicated by Chinese characters \'一分\'). Part of the \"REPUBLIC OF CHINA POSTAGE\" text is visible. Design depicts a Chinese junk (sailing ship).
* **Right Stamp (Green):** Denomination is 3 Cents (or Fen, indicated by Chinese characters \'叁分\'). Text \"REPUBLIC OF CHINA POSTAGE\" is clearly visible. Design depicts a Chinese junk (sailing ship).
🏛️ Publisher & Postal Note
* **Publisher:** PUBLISHED BY CAMERACRAFT CO. PEKING, CHINA.
* **Postal Notes:**
* \"THIS SPACE FOR WRITING MESSAGE\" (printed vertically on the left side)
* \"THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS\" (printed horizontally on the right side)
* \"R-8075\" (printed above the Peking postmark)
* \"AMERICAN ART\" (printed vertically and very faintly near the bottom center)
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