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Everything tagged "junk boat"

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1874

J.Thompson 1874 - Illustrations of China and Its People.

'The term junk, applied by all Europeans to all Chinese craft, probably derived from the word 'jung' the Javanese word for a large boat or vessel.

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