"Coolie" laborers smoking and resting on a rooftop in China, ca.1900

Photograph of "Coolie" laborers smoking and resting on a rooftop in China, ca.1900. Six men are shown in pants and tunics, smoking from long pipes. Three at left are seated on a slab of eroding brick while a fourth stands in front of them. Two others stand to the right. The roofs of other buildings can be seen in the distance. "Coolie" was the term used by a foreign shipping agency to denote a native laborer