| Harry A. Franck |
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| A boss cattleman of the Walkerville barns who has crossed the Atlantic scores of times |
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| Upon arrival in Montreal I put up at the “Stock Yards Hotel” and get a preliminary hair-cut in anticipation |
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| Women laborers in the linen-mills of Belfast, Ireland |
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| S. S. Sardinian. “Lamps does a bit of painting above the temporary cattle-pens” |
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| A baker’s cart of Holland on the morning round |
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| A public laundry on the Rhine at Mainz, Germany |
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| Canal-boats laden with lumber from Nièvre entering Paris |
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| “They are excellently built, the Routes Nationales of France” |
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| A typical French roadster who has tramped the highways of Europe for thirty years |
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| The two French miners with whom I tramped in France. Notice shoe-laces carried for sale |
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| A Venetian pauper on the Rialto bridge |
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| My gondolier on the Grand Canal |
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| Going for the water. A village north of Rome |
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| Italy is one of the most cruelly priest-ridden countries on the globe |
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| Selling the famous long-horned cattle of Siena outside the walls |
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| Italian peasants returning from market-day in the communal village |
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| A factory of red roof-tiles near Naples. The girl works from daylight to dark for sixteen cents |
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| Italian peasants returning from the vineyards to the village |
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| My entrance into Paris in the corduroy garb and with the usual amount of baggage of the first months of the trip |
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| “Tony of the Belt” |
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| As I appeared during my tramp in Asia Minor. A picture taken by Abdul Razac Bundak, bumboat-man of Beirut |
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| The lonely, Bedouin-infected road over the Lebanon. “Few corners of the globe offer more utter solitude than Syria and Palestine” |
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| The Palestine beast of burden loaded with stone |
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| Damascus. “The street called Straight—which isn’t” |
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| A wood-turner of Damascus. He watches the ever-passing throng, turning the stick with a bow and a loose string, and holding the chisel with his toes |
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| The most thickly settled portion of Damascus is the graveyard. A picture taken at risk of mobbing |
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| Women of Bethlehem going to the Church of the Nativity |
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| Tyre is now a miserable village connected with the mainland by a wind-blown neck of sand |
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| Agriculture in Palestine. There is not an ounce of iron about the plow |
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| On the road between Haifa and Nazareth I meet a road-repair gang, all women but the boss |
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| On the summit of Jebel es Sihk, back of Nazareth. From left to right: Shukry Nasr, teacher; Elias Awad, cook; and Nehmé Simán, teacher; my hosts in Nazareth |
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| The shopkeeper and the traveling salesman with whom I spent two nights and a day on the lonely road to Jerusalem. Arabs are very sensitive to cold, except on their feet and ankles |
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| A high official of Mohammedanism. It being against the teachings of the Koran to have one’s picture taken, master and servant turn away their faces |
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| The view of Jerusalem from my window in the Jewish hotel |
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| Sellers of oranges and bread in Jerusalem. Notice Standard Oil can |
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| The Palestine beast of burden carrying an iron beam to a building in construction |
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| Jews of Jerusalem in typical costume |
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| A winged dahabiyeh of the Nile |
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| Sais or carriage runners of Cairo, clearing the streets for their master |
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| An Arab gardener on the estate of the American consul of Cairo, for whom I worked two weeks |
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| Otto Pia, the German beggar-letter writer of Cairo |
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| An Arab café in Old Cairo |
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| An abandoned mosque outside the walls of Cairo, and a caravan off for Suez across the desert |
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| Spinners in the sun outside the walls of Cairo |
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| Guests of the Asile Rudolph, Cairo. François, champion beggar, in the center, in the cape he wore as part of his “system” |
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| An Arab market-day at the village of Gizeh |
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| A woman of Alexandria, Egypt, carrying two bushels of oranges. Even barefooted market-women wear the veil required by the Koran |
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| On the top of the largest pyramid. From the ground it looks as sharply pointed as the others |
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| “Along the way shadoofs were ceaselessly dipping up the water that gives life to the fields of Egypt” |
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| The “Tombs of the Kings” from the top of the Libyan range, to which I climbed above the plain of Thebes |
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| A water-carrier of Luxor. A goatskin full costs one cent |
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| The main entrance to the ruins of Karnak |
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| The Egyptian fellah dwells in a hut of reeds and mud |
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| Arab passengers on the Nile steamer. Except for their prayers, they scarcely move once a day |
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| The Greek patriarch whose secretary I became—temporarily |
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| S. S. Worcestershire of the Bibby Line, on which I stowed away after taking this picture |
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| Oriental travelers at Port Saïd |
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| An outrigger canoe and an outdoor laundry in Colombo, Ceylon |
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| Road-repairers of Ceylon. Highway between Colombo and Kandy |
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| Singhalese ladies wear only a skirt and a short waist, between which several inches of brown skin are visible |
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| A Singhalese woman rarely misses an opportunity to give her children a bath |
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| The woman who sold me the bananas |
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| The thatch roof at the roadside, under which I slept on the second night of my tramp to Kandy |
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| Singhalese infants are very sturdy during the first years |
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| The yogi who ate twenty-eight of the bananas at a sitting |
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| Central Ceylon. Making roof-tiles. The sun is the only kiln |
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| The priests of the “Temple of the Tooth” in Kandy, who were my guides during my stay in the city |
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| The rickshaw men of Colombo |
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| American wanderers who slept in the Gordon Gardens of Colombo. Left to right: Arnold, ex-New York ward heeler; myself; “Dick Haywood”; an English lad; and Marten of Tacoma, Washington |
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| The trick elephant of Fitzgerald’s circus and a high-caste Singhalese with circle-comb |
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| John Askins, M.A., who had been “on the road” in the Orient twenty years |
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| A Hindu of Madras with caste-mark, of cow-dung and coloring-matter, on his forehead |
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| Hindus of all castes now travel by train |
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| “Haywood” snaps me as I am getting a shave in Trichinopoly |
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| The Hindu affects many strange coiffures. Natives of Madras |
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| A Hindu basket-weaver of Madras |
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| The great road of Puri, over which the massive Juggernaut car is drawn once a year |
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| The main entrance to Juggernaut’s temple in Puri. I was mobbed for stepping on the flagging around the column |
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| “Suttee” having been forbidden by their English rulers, Hindu widows must now shave their heads, dress in white, and gain their livelihood as best they can |
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| A seller of the wood with which the bodies of Hindus are burned on the banks of the Ganges. Very despised caste |
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| Bankipur’s chief object of interest is a vast granary built in the time of the American Revolution to keep grain for times of famine. From its top the traveler catches his first glimpse of the Ganges |
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| Women of Delhi near gate forced during the Sepoy rebellion. One carries water in a Standard Oil can, another a basket of dung-cakes |
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| One of the many flights of steps leading down to the bathing-ghats and funeral pyres of Benares |
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| The Taj Mahal, Agra, India |
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| A market-day in Delhi, India. Many castes of Hindus and Mohammedans are represented |
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| The Hindu street-sprinkler does not lay much dust |
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| A lady of quality of Delhi out for a drive |
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| Hindu women drinking cocoanut-milk |
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| Bungalows along the way in rural Burma |
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| Women of the Malay Peninsula wear nothing above the waist-line and not much below it |
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| A Laos carrier crossing the stream that separates Burma from Siam |
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| The sort of jungle through which we cut our way for three weeks. Gerald James, my Australian companion, in the foreground |
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| “An elephant, with a mahout dozing on his head, was advancing toward us” |
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| Myself after four days in the jungle, and the Siamese soldiers with whom we fell in now and then between Myáwadi and Rehang. I had sold my helmet |
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| Bangkok is a city of many canals |
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| A swimming-school of Japan, teachers on the bank, novices near the shore, and advanced students, in white head-dress, well out in the pool |
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| Women do most of the work in the rice-fields of Japan |
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| Horses are rare in Japan. Men and baggage are drawn by coolies |
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| Japanese children playing in the streets of Kioto |
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| A Japanese lady |
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| Japanese canal-boats and coolies of Kioto |
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| The castle of Nagoya, in which many Russian prisoners were kept |
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| Laying out fish to dry along the river in Tokio. Japan lives principally on fish and rice |
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| An employee of the Tokio-Yokohama interurban, and some street urchins |
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| Fishermen along the bay on my tramp from Tokio to Yokohama |
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| The Russian consulate of Yokohama, in which we “beachcombers” slept |
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| Japanese types in a temple inclosure |
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| A Yokohama street decorated for the Taft party. The display is entirely private and shows the general good will of the Japanese toward the United States |
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