'The Pekingese mule-litter is shown in No. 54. It is the usual conveyance adopted by the Chinese, if they wish for ease and comfort, when they visit localities outside the great wall. Two long shafts support the litter, and are harnessed at the ends to the backs of two mules. It was to this chai...
The Indian ton-ton. Photographer: Scott, Allan Newton
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Stereoscopic view of an Indian figure seated in a form of sedan chair, photographed at Secunderabad, with descriptive text, p. 67. Published in part no. 75, September 1864. Not published in Scott's 'Sketches in India; taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency' (Lovell Reeve, ...
Darjeeling. A dandy and bearers. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Coloured postcard, published by D.Macropolo and Co., Calcutta. View of four men carrying a type of sedan chair.
Minister Conger leaving Legation in his official chair—always used on official calls, Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
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The Minister of the American Legation Minister Conger and his secretary, travelling in sedan chairs on an official visit. Edwin H. Conger (1843-1907) served as American Minister Plenipotentiary to China from 1898-1905.
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing a Japanese woman being transported in a form of sedan chair slung on a pole and carried by two men: 'The cango is the most uncomfortable means of conveyance to all but Japanese … a mere bamboo affair, in which the occupant is regularly bundled and shake...