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NAA: ST84/1, 1909/22/41-50

The story of the handprint

This handprint was made by 12-year-old Charles Allen, the son of a Chinese father and white mother, when he travelled to China in 1909. Charles spent six years living with his father’s family in the town of Shekki, inland from Hong Kong…

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