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Title
Dock workers unloading rice from a 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 dock workers unloading rice from a skiff in China, ca.1900. A man is pictured at center, crossing the narrow beam between the skiff and the dock, a large basket of rice burdening his shoulder. In the background, the rest of the crew can be seen on the skiff preparing for similar loads. Buildings can be seen farther back.
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-m30598
USC-1-1-1-14111 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12281
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30598
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12281.jpg
Subject
Cargo
Chinese
Men
Skiffs
Stevedores
China
Harbors
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
China
Source
1-222- [Microfiche number]
12281 [Accession number]
CHS-12281; unid-268 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 268 [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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