Image No. cn00138

Postcard Data

Size: 138x89mm
Caption: Chinese Opium Smoked (also Chinese language)

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Printing Technique: Photogravure
Color Nature: Chromo
Postcard Particulars: The caption does not apply to this scene.

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Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Creation Place: (Assumed)

Topic: Passenger wheelbarrow

Action: Wheelbarrow carrying two boys, each with one foot on the frame and the other in the rope stirrup. One boy holds an open umbrella, the other a closed one while two young men stand nearby. The setting is a western’s style garden with a railing before a hedge and a line of trees set against a wall with tiles on top.

Image Particulars: Wheelbarrows were the primary mode of transportation in Shanghai before the rickshaw (1874). They remained in use long after that date.