A group of young boys and girls look over something in the street. They wear the jackets called a echogorie and pants called a epajie. Both boys and girls have long braided hairs. Girls have etaenggie at the end of the braids. Their costume would have been worn only on festival days, in this case (because of the heavy winter clothing worn by them) almost certainly on the Lunar New Year, which occurs in late January or early February.
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Two artisans or farmers are at work to make straw shoes (chipsin). The finished shoes are displayed on the wall.
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Identifier: 1260.60.09.42.04
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eWhen mourners went outdoors, they wore a long coat over their mourning dress. The coat sleeves differed in width according to social class: wider sleeves for upper classes and narrower sleeves for lower classes. All mourners wore conical hats made of finely-cut bamboos on the outside and of sedge on the inside.e They carried a 'poson' (fan made from hemp cloth) in order to cover their faces. Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998, p. 90. In this picture a man on left wears his sangbok (mourning dress) with a conical hat made of finely-cut bamboo, but the other on right wears a regular every day dress with a mourning cap. They stand in front of a building while people behind them are watching.
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Identifier: 1260.60.09.48.03
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Three farmers take turns to pound rice with mallets. The rice batter is used to make rice cakes which are special treats for parties and memorial services for ancestors.
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Fulling clothes was a women's chore done usually in the evenings, after the kitchen work was finished for the day. When the clothes were still slightly damp after washing, they were folded and fulled on a flat board which is called 'tadumidol'. Women used a long and rounded wooden stick in each hand for fulling, which is called 'tadumi pangmangi'. As a result the clothes acquired a certain glossy surface sheen, which lasted for a considerable time. The same picture is shown in www.koreanphoto.co.kr/culture/custom/10.htm.
Identifier: 1260.57.28.03
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Water for commoners came mainly from communal wells, except for some (aristocratic) 'yangban' households that maintained their own. Households without their own wells used water supplied by water carriers balancing two buckets on a shoulder-pole. Source: Pratt, Keith. Old Seoul, 2002. p. 31. eTo supply a large city with water from neighborhood wells is a work of no small magnitude, and the water-carrier is a recognised institution, which boasts of a powerful guild. The work is genuine and hard, and the pay is correspondingly high.e Homer B. Hulbert. Source: First encounters : Korea 1880-1910, 1982. P.101.
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A commoner's house is adorned with Korean and American flags. The owner of the house stands in front of his house and a passerby in full Korean outfit, holds a fan to protect his face from the sun. Hopes for American protection from the Japanese ran high in the general population at the time the image was taken, symbolized by the flying of the American flag.
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: A young coolie, or a laborer, leads an ox, or a bullock, harnessed to carry a cart.
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Korean women from the lower class of old Korea wore cloaks over their heads for outing. The cloak is called essugae chimae or changot, which is a coat-style veil. Originally changot was the everyday wear for both kings and commoners. Since the time of King 'Sejo' (1417-1468), however, women began to wear the robe, and it then evolved as a veil for women. The inner and outer collars were symmetrical in shape, while the neckline and sleeve-ends were trimmed with a wide, white bias. The collar, ties and armpits were purple. Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998, p. 124.
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Young girls at the open market. They wear Korean traditional long eturumagie that is tied with two long ekorume on the upper part of the coat. Their socks are called eposone and shoes are called ekomusine. All the girls have typical young girl's hairstyle that is parted in the center of their heads. Their costume would have been worn only on festival days, in this case (because of the heavy winter clothing) almost certainly on the Lunar New Year, which occurs in late January or early February.
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A man is standing in front of the American Legation on a very cold winter day. He wears a warmer and different hat than an ordinary Korean 'kat' which is worn by men shown behind him.
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Identifier: 1260.60.09.55.03
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White Buddha Shrine. The statue still stands in what is now Hongeun-dong, Seoul. Source: First encounters : Korea 1880-1910, 1982. P. 68.
Inscription/Marks: Inscription: 'Buddist wayside shrine' in unknown hand.
Identifier: 1260.60.09.41.02
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Senator Newlands (first row, middle) and Gordon Paddock (first row, towards the right) are shown with a group of Korean scholars and soldiers in traditional soldier's uniforms. A group of Korean women are shown behind them.
Identifier: 1260.61.059.02
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Korean boys and girls stand at attention to march in the field. They wear mostly white overcoat called eturumagie over the jacket (chogori) and trousers called epajie. Some wear shoes called ekomusine and the others wear shoes (echipsin'), made of plant fibers. Two children carry Korean and American flags.
Inscription/Marks: No inscription.
Identifier: 1260.60.09.56.03
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Two middle-aged Korean gentlemen walking down the street. They wear a traditional Korean costume, echogorie and epajie with eturumagie that is tied with two long ekorume on the upper part of the coat. Their epajie are tied with etaenime at the lower ends of trousers. Both of them have echumonie, that contains money, under their waists. Their hat, called a ehukripe or commonly a ekate is made out of horsehair. Their shoes are ekomusine. The sunglasses reflect a modern attire among the upper-class Korean gentry.
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The exact nature of this photograph is unclear. A man beside a statue-like figure standing on an elevated place, probably delivering some messages to Korean civilians, with Korean soldiers looking on.
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Identifier: 1260.60.09.48.02
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Korean officials with arms tucked inside the sleeves, obviously on a chilly day. In the background, a woman wears a essugae chimae. The street setting appears to be related to the Royal Palace grounds in Seoul.
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This magnificent bullock is shown loaded with fire wood. Bullocks or pony-drawn carts carried wood or grass for household fires. Wood fagots were used as fuel for cooking and heating 'ondol' (underfloor heating system) brick or stone floors which are covered with strong waxed paper. Cows or oxen used to be very important (and expensive) assets for farming. Oxen or bullocks were also used in transportion and road works.
Identifier: 1260.57.27.02
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'Kune', a Korean type swing. It is entirely common to see people ride such swings standing up; often two people will face one another as they ride. This picture shows an interesting scene in which one person sits on the swing, two standing on the shoulders of those below; above them a rather fragile looking branch bends under their weight. The tree, which has only one very strong branch, seems to be a perfect 'swing tree'.
Identifier: 1260.57.39.05
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This porter carries more than 12 various-sized clay pots, stacked safely in his A-frame. These jars, called a 'siru', were an important part of daily life. They were used to steam rice cakes. 'The jars are made in special kilns through a method of reduction: flames and air are mixed into a fierce heat. Pine twigs are used to keep the flames intense, and the kiln's smokestack and fuel-hole are closed to intensify the heat. The clay ware controls the humidity and helps purify the jars.' Source: Website www.lifeinkorea.com/Images/ tools/kimch508.jpg (viewed May 9, 2003) 'The human porter who was the most ubiquitous carrier of heavy loads, the A-frame on his back piled high with wood, vegetables, fish, seaweed, bamboo, paper, or pots and pans. It was said that a man could lift up to 250 lbs. with ease and 300 lbs. with assistance. With 100 lbs. on his back he could average thirty miles a day.' Source: Pratt, Keith. Old Seoul, 2002, p. 36.
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Identifier: 1260.60.09.41.01
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