This is a folio of eight unused cards of Harbin’s main street. The cardboard wrap has a wonderful little poem in English and Chinese, commemorating the folio itself. The folio (and therefore the cards) was new in the 1990s but the photos are old pictures as main street used to be–not all of it 100 years ago. Plus, each card has 40 fen postage pre-printed on it. So now we tell you the cards were issued by the Ministry of Information. Grade: 1