Streetlife

Hawkers were major suppliers of goods and services and a feature of Peking street life in the 1930s and 1940s. They identified themselves by a distinctive call or sound produced by a musical instrument such as a gourd, drum or pair of clappers. Morrison photographed a wide variety of street traders, including knife grinders, makers of reed toys, rose-hip vendors, barbers, dealers in secondhand goods, fruit sellers, fortune-tellers and entertainers.

92/1414-214 Photograph, 'Funeral procession', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-200 Photograph, 'Second-hand goods seller at Tianqiao market', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-219 Photograph, 'Roadside fortune teller', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-216 Photograph, 'Feather duster seller', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946 92/1414-244 Photograph, 'Broom peddler', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.
92/1414-201 Photograph, 'Man with a hand drum selling needles and sewing thread', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-215 Photograph, 'Spinning silk', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-192 Photograph, 'Itinerant barber', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-243 Photograph, 'Street puppet theatre', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-290 Photograph, 'Old man at a Chinese New Year stall, Liulichang', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.
92/1414-218 Photograph, 'Funeral procession at the foot of Zhengyang Gate Watchtower', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-211 Photograph, 'Rickshaws', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-208 Photograph, 'Young acrobat at Tianqiao market', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-231 Photograph, 'Selling persimmons', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 93/179/1-1 Photograph, 'Rolleiflex advertisement with street food vendor', black and white, silver gelatin print, marked 'Rolleiflex', by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1957.
92/1414-217 Photograph, 'Qianmen Boulevard and the memorial archway at Zhengyang Bridge after snowfall', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 93/179/1-2 Photograph, 'Rolleiflex advertisement with street vendor smoking a pipe', black and white, silver gelatin print, marked 'Rolleiflex', by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-297 Photograph, 'Seller of coloured paper lanterns and whistles', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-212 Photograph, 'Street scene in the outer Chinese city', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946. 92/1414-224 Photograph, 'Chinese New Year painting and calligraphy stall, Haiwang Village, east of Liulichang', black and white, silver gelatin print, by Hedda Morrison, Peking, China, 1933-1946.