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Title
Family moving all their possessions in a river skiff in China, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a family moving all their possessions in a river skiff in China, ca.1900. A small flat-boat is pictured on the water at center, just to the left of the landing. Four individuals can be seen on the periphery of the mound of property that has been heaped down into the center of the water craft and secured to the boat with an overturned basket and rope.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negative, photographic print, b&w
9 x 10 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30592
USC-1-1-1-14111 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12275
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30592
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12275.jpg
Subject
China
Chinese
Family
River boats
Skiffs
Recreational facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
China
Source
1-222- [Microfiche number]
12275 [Accession number]
CHS-12275; unid-234 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 234 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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