Wheelbarrow transport, China
Wheelbarrows'. Thomson writes the conveyance is not unpleasant when one has grown accustomed to its use.. they are cheap and comparatively safe'. He notes that sometimes an entire family is carried and that at the end of a long day a coolie seeks a cheap elysium in the dreams of the opium pipe
Picture No
11939099
Media ID
46076919
Size
3057px x 2499px
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Credit
© The John Meek Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
Editorial Use Only
Source
From Illustrations of China and its People' by J Thomson, published by Sampson Low, 1874. Photograph: John Meek
Date
1874
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