A boat train, led by a steam boat

A boat train, led by a steam boat

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ar04-065.  Probably in Taihu region, west of Shanghai.  For a description of the 'boat trains', see Revd Charles Darwent's guidebook to Shanghai: 'Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlement and native city' (1904), page 43.  See Ar04-082.

Estimated Date

1920-1930

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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