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Sedan chair, Xian, Shaanxi, China, ca. 1900

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Title: Sedan chair, Xian, Shaanxi, China, ca. 1900
Creator: unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890/1900
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: "Sedan chair in Sian Hospital Compound" Three Chinese laborers carry a sedan chair through an alley in the midst of a hospital compound in Sian [Xian].
This photo is from the papers of Rev. Dean Goddard, an American Baptist missionary who served in Ningpo, Chekiang, China from 1870-1903.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 8.1 x 10.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m14384 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-081-0001-0028
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14384
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-081-0001-0028.jpg
Subject: Transport
Indigenous populations
Hospitals
General views
Time Period: 1890/1900
Place: Asia
China
Shaanxi
Xian
Source: YDS/RG008/081/0001/0028 [File]
Relation: China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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