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Subject Sedan Chairs

11. Photo 1148(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1148(44)
Title:
Japanese lady in a yama-kago (mountain chair) crossing Daiya River, Nikko, Japan. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

12. Photo 1161(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1161(18)
Title:
Madeira. Trage-Hängematte. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Showing a man reclining in a form of palanquin or sedan chair, slung from a pole and carried by two men.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 item

13. Photo 1188(97)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1188(97)
Title:
Minister Conger leaving Legation in his official chair—always used on official calls, Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

14. Photo 1224/3(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(8)
Title:
Hong Kong. Queen's Road, Native Town. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Hong Kong was visited by the compiler of this album from 3-8 March 1879. Street view of Queen's Road, with rows of signboards hung from the shops on either side. With sedan chairs parked on either side of the street.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

15. Photo 1224/3(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/3(9)
Title:
Hong Kong Chair. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Hong Kong was visited by the compiler of this album from 3-8 March 1879. Chinese man being carried by two bearers in a sedan chair.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

16. Photo 1224/6(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(8)
Title:
Girl in Kager [Japan]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Numbered 827 in the negative. Roadside scene, showing a woman seated in a kind of open sedan chair carried by two men dressed only in loincloths.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

17. Photo 1224/6(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/6(44)
Title:
Geyshers [Geishas]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in Japanese and numbered 301 in the negative. Portrait group of geishas seated in a garden on a sedan chair, attended by servants.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

18. PP.3803.bha, 1/1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
PP.3803.bha, 1/1(2)
Title:
Cango. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item