A Chinese bride, with bridesmaids and page boys

Title : A Chinese bride, with bridesmaids and page boys

Topic : Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Location : Unknown

Date (start) : 1915

Estimated dates : 1915-30

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Paper

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: he03-047. Photo from an album (UoB reference he03) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference PP MS 82/14). Hedgeland provided no caption for this photo. However, the newspaper cutting pasted into the album from the London 'Evening Standard' on 23 September 1935, entitled 'River Death Riddle of a Davis Cup Captain' suggests that this is a photo of Mr Wing Lock-Wei's bride and her attendants.

Keywords : CMCS;Chinese Maritime Customs Service;IMCS;Imperial Maritime Customs Service;marriage;flower;clothes;fashion;child