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[vintagevisions]

Madeleine Smith, English actress 1970s

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38 rare pictures of eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty

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38 rare pictures of eunuchs during the Qing Dynasty

A eunuch (太監, Taijian) is a man who has been castrated in his early life for this change to have major hormonal consequences.

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They have performed a wide variety of functions in many cultures: treble singers, courtiers, domestics, religious specialists, government officials, and harem servants.

Records of eunuchs in China date to the Shang dynasty, when the Shang kings castrated prisoners of war.

In China, castration included the removal of the penis as well as the testicles.

Both organs were cut off with a knife at the same time.

From ancient times until the Sui Dynasty, castration was both a traditional punishment and a means of gaining employment in the Imperial service

Men sentenced to castration were turned into eunuch slaves of the Qin dynasty state to perform forced labor for projects such as the Terracotta Army.

From ancient times until the Sui Dynasty, castration was both a traditional punishment (one of the Five Punishments) and a means of gaining employment in the Imperial service.

In China, castration included the removal of the penis as well as the testicles. Both organs were cut off with a knife at the same time.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were about 70,000 eunuchs employed by the emperor, with some serving inside the Imperial Palace.

Certain eunuchs gained immense power that occasionally superseded that of even the Grand Secretaries, like Zheng He, who lived during the Ming Dynasty.

When the Ming army finally captured Yunnan from Mongols in 1382, thousands of prisoners were killed and, according to the custom in times of war, their young sons – including Zheng He – were castrated. (Wikipedia)

Certain eunuchs gained immense power that occasionally superseded that of even the Grand Secretaries, like Zheng He, who lived during the Ming Dynasty.

Images of Chinese eunuchs

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http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/brush_shutter/essential_china.html http://www.usrf.org/news/010308-eunuchs_china.html http://gb.cri.cn/15884/2007/02/01/ http://taijian.baike.com/article-80849.html http://ilishi.blog.sohu.com/118388051.html Wikipedia

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[magicae]

thinking about her (old stockholm telephone tower in use 1887-1913)

"...some Stockholmers said that the [lines] were so dense they would obscure the sun," said the then 90-year-old Karl-Väinö Tahvanainen, who worked in the tower, in an interview with SvD in 2012 (x)

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Taking the veil", painting by Emile Renard

French vintage postcard

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Welch Family Portrait – Howard Galleries // Temple Family, Lena Ward, and Fannie Wait in Yard at 811 Madison St., ca 1897 – unknown photographer // Growing Sideways – Noah Kahan

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Early 1910s Hairstyles

Gerda Ring (1910-1915) via the Olso Museum // Gertrude Vanderbilt, American art collector and sculptor (1910) via wikipedia // Princess Patricia of Connaught (1912) via npg.org.uk // Anne Johnson of St. Louis (1913) via wikipedia // Hazel Dawn, American actress (1913) via David Shields on pinterest // Ruth Findlay, American actress (1914) via wikipedia

[eyesfullofmoon]

Truth, Melbourne, March 6, 1976.

[rosieandthemoon]

found this picture of my grandmother. She was really into medieval re-enactment in the 70���s

[retrotales]

"The construction of the Eiffel Tower"

1889

[theworldofwars]

Burial of Major Edward Lewin Knight, commander of the Eaton Motor Machine Gun Battery (Canadian Machine Gun Corps). Major Knight was killed on 26 September 1916.

We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved.

[leocadra]

St-Martin / Hrad, Bratislava, Slovakia.

[vintagevisions]

[thebaffledcaptain]

One of my favorite photos from Dey Mansion, featuring myself and my fellow 22nd fifer serenading our lady of the regiment (credit to the Passaic County Facebook page).

[postcard-from-the-past]

Street scene in Bizerte, Tunisia

French vintage postcard

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

“So now I think my time is near - I trust it is - I know / The blessed Music went that way my soul will have to go” – Julia Margaret Cameron // Not Strong Enough – boygenius

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Miss Gabrielle Ray" (1906)

via flickr