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Portable raft made of goat skins, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 1936

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Title: Portable raft made of goat skins, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 1936
Creator: Pickens, Claude L
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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: A portable goat skin raft which is used in the water down stream and carried on the back of a man upstream. Many such small rafts are fastened together to make one of the hundred skins or more to transport large cargo or a number of people to cities down the Yellow River.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 7 x 9.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2970 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0001-0002
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2970
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0001-0002.jpg
Subject: Inland water transport
General views
Time Period: 1936
Place: China
Kansu
Lanchow
Source: YDS/RG008/333/0001/0002 [File]
Relation: Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Papers; 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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