A Chinese man with Alfred Powell on a boat

A Chinese man with Alfred Powell on a boat

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Os-s118. Photo from the Oswald collection kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London. The boy is wearing an American sailor hat “U. S. S. W”. Chinese babies/toddlers used to have twine/string attached to them and to the boat, to aid their rescue should the child fall in the water.

Caption on photograph

Alfred Powell / 2 years & 6 months

Estimated Date

1920-1929

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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