Part 4 of History in Photos shows the Sichuanese market and family life in Longquan (龙泉镇) a suburb of Chengdu. Photos by Ilishi.

Part 1: Sichuan 1909

Part 2: Burial in Chengdu

Part 3: Old Beijing in Colors

Market street

Mother letting her child ride on the back of a pig for fun

Women buying and selling chili peppers

Men selling bamboo sleeping mats

People lining up at the post office to send letters

Riding on a wheelbarrow

Boy carrying grass to feed the pigs

A vendor carrying goods to market on a shoulder pole

Tools vendor

A street-side bookstore

Grainary and oil shop

Restaurant

Seed vendor

Bamboo oil pitchers

A shave

Wooden oars

Wood-carving artisan

A quack "doctor's" spread on the roadside

Market street

Military training

Fire brigade

Young mothers learning about nutrition

A church sermon

Sugar-cane seller

Children in class

Pawn shop

Mothers learning how to bathe their children

Public reading room

Cloth-shoe vendor

Candlemaker

Guest house

The following series depicts two family homes, showing the daily lives of three generations.

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