File:Heads of robbers posted on a billboard at Nanking, China ATLIB 305965.png

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English: Copy of a photograph from an unidentified book, the original photographer is identified as Claude Meacham. The copy was photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1903. Image shows four heads of Chinese robbers after beheading, posted on a billboard in Nanking. The negative shows the full inscription from the original book, but the file print shows only the picture.

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Photograph of Claude Meacham
Heads of outlaws posted on a billboard at Nanking

The Chinese consider the worst form of death is to be beheaded, but if te condemned man faces his execution with contempt and lack of fear he stands a somewhat better chance of appeasing the anger of his gods. The crime of which these men were convicted was theft.
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Source https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.305965
Author Photograph of Claude Meacham, reproduced by Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949
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Heads of robbers posted on a billboard at Nanking, China
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Nanjing
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Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
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APG-1428-1/4-G
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IE226694
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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