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Two Chinese walking along a railroad, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, ca. 1885

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Title: Two Chinese walking along a railroad, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, ca. 1885
Creator: unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1870/1900
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: Two Chinese walk between a pair of railroad tracks. They are both carrying large bundles. One of them is using a yoke to carry his goods. Fields of crops can be seen in the distance. Written on the album sleeve of this photograph: "On the railroad between Cheng-chow and the rail head."
This photo is from the papers of Dean Goddard, who was an ABFMS missionary in Ningpo, Che-chiang, China from 1870-1903.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 10.6 x 8.1 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m14360 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-081-0001-0020
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14360
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-081-0001-0020.jpg
Subject: Transport
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period: 1870/1900
Place: Asia
Chengchow
China
Henan
Source: YDS/RG008/081/0001/0020 [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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