A Summer Sedan Chair, China, ca. 1900-1919

A Summer Sedan Chair, China, ca. 1900-1919

Image depicts the carrying of a traveler associated with American presbyterian missionary group by two laborers in profile. A note included in the original source states "A summer sedan chair, the kind we used to go up the mountain to Mokanshan, the summer resort to which Uncle Fred and his family and the missionaries of his area used to go for summer vacation." Two men are carrying a person in a shaded sedan chair.; Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa." (WikiMedia Commons)

Anonymous Photographer

Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 Repository name: Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library

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1900-1919

Yale Divinity Library Special Collections; Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960; Subcollection: Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950

This work is in the Public Domain

English

Still Image

Photograph; Lantern Slide

Unknown physical dimensions; Digital dimensions 5,155 × 3,363 (1,008 KB)