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Image: Muslim meat shop halal sign, Hankow China, 1935

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Description: (Original text description) Hankow. Moslem meat shop sign. Dimensions 6.5 x 7 cm. Location Meat shop, Hankou, Hubei Sheng, China. General: Excerpt from unpublished photo essay, plate 59: "A Moslem restaurant sign with the teapot and Arabic in the center. At the top are two Chinese characters 'ch'ing' and 'chen,' clean and true. Just these two characters on many signs make a shop one where Moslems may eat. These correspond to the "kosher" characters on a Jewish eating house."
Title: Muslim meat shop halal sign, Hankow China, 1935
Credit: Harvard University Library Visual Information Access, Harvard-Yenching Library CP03.09.03, olvwork173487
Author: Pickens Jr., Rev. Claude L. (1900-1985), United States, photographer
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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