Tonkin Woman smoking Opium. North Vietnam 1895.

Femme fumant de l’opium.

Autor: Du Monde Souvenirs de Voyages, Paris, L. Boulanger, editeur. 1895

New York working girls in an Opium Den, 1883.

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Various opium pipes. Opium smocking in Shanghai 1899.

Japan Merchant of oranges. Traditional Japan costumes.

Samurais. Japan military. Groupe de Samourais.

Old fashioned japanese kimonos. Le Jour du récurage.

Japanese children. Traditional Japan costumes.

Treasure spots of the world by Walter Bentley Woodbury 1875.

Japanese Seller of basketry. Traditional Japan costumes.

Relocation of a Japanese family. Traditional Japan Costumes.

Pilgrimages and the sacred hills of Buddhism in China.

An old bridge in Chao-Chow-Fu, in Guangdong Province, Southern China.

Chinese Pagoda, Kwangtung Province, on the right bank of the Han river.

Tolling of Buddhist Bells and the series of 108 strokes.