3.09.2005

NYPL Image Library Find #1



Everybody's linking to it. I tried to resist because I knew I would get irrevocably immersed, but I suppose I could limit myself to one find a day. Here's my first, a set of cigarette cards of kung fu stances. These are, as far as I can discern, all stances that we do in Shaolin. It melted me to see this...

I mean, we just learned this stance in the Baby Leopard Fist last Saturday.

They seem from the 1930s Shanghai time and apparently cigarette cards are like baseball cards here. Uh-oh, don't let me near eBay.

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