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March 2026 Unreserved Photo Auction — Curiosities, Performers & Vernacular Photography

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Our March 2026 auction presents a wide selection of historical photographs, postcards, entertainment memorabilia, and visual curiosities spanning the mid-nineteenth through twentieth centuries. Every lot is offered completely without reserve, ensuring that each item sells to the highest bidder regardless of price. Combined purchases totaling $500 or more qualify for free shipping, providing collectors an added incentive to bid across multiple lots. The unreserved format creates opportunities for both new and experienced collectors to acquire unusual and historically interesting material.
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Lot 390

Stereoview, "Lily Footed" Woman of China, 1900

Estimate: $50 - $400
Starting Bid
$10

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A seated Chinese woman wearing traditional dress with bound feet resting on a low stool is depicted in this stereoview, published by Underwood & Underwood in 1900. The studio setting includes carved wooden furniture, a decorative floor covering, draped fabric, and an artificial tree prop with blossoms.

Foot binding was a practice observed across certain social classes in China for approximately nine centuries before its gradual abolition in the early twentieth century.

The printed caption reads in full: "A 'Lily Footed' Woman of China — this outrage against Nature has been in vogue 900 years." The caption is repeated on the reverse in French, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian. Publisher imprints appear on both vertical margins: Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas, and Nortes and Underwood Studios, Arlington, Tennessee; Littleton, New Hampshire; Washington, D.C. Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood is printed below the image.

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