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Title
Sampan boat on the Ing Tai River, Fujian, China, ca. 1910
Creator
unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1920
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
The flat-bottomed boat has a fairly large hut in the middle. A sailor is on an elevated structure at the stern to man the tiller. Two other sailors stand at the prow.
This photo is from the papers of the Edward Huntington Smith family, missionaries serving the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in China, 1901-1950, primarily in Ing Tai and Foochow [Fuzhou].
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 7.3 x 10.3 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14089 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG005-017-0010-0026
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14089
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG005-017-0010-0026.jpg
Subject
Inland water transport
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period
1900/1920
Place
Asia
China
Fukien
Ing Tai
Source
YDS/RG005/017/0010/0026 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Smith Family Papers
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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