PHOTO OF THE DAY April 24, 2005  

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Where Beijing, China
When 1997
Photographer Macduff Everton

Rolls of silk fabric line a Beijing shop shelf. Chinese silk has been a popular commodity at least since ancient Roman times, when it was favored by the rich and fashionable.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Heart of the Celestial Empire," September 1998, National Geographic Traveler magazine)


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