A Chinese rough and ready 'Sedan Chair' for the mountains. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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View of a man being carried on a wooden chair slung over poles carried by two porters. Wingate's additional note on the conveyance reads: 'A suggestion for hill-warfare. These two men carried the man on the chair up and down 2,000 and 3,000 feet of steep mountain-side, and across rapid-flowing r...
A Chinese rough and ready 'Sedan Chair' for the mountains. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View of a man being carried on a wooden chair slung over poles carried by two porters. Wingate's additional note on the conveyance reads: 'A suggestion for hill-warfare. These two men carried the man on the chair up and down 2,000 and 3,000 feet of steep mountain-side, and across rapid-flowing r...
En route to interview the Viceroy of yun-kuei. The first British uniform in Yun-nan city. Understand the city wall, inside. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
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Procession posed in front of the city walls of Kunming, the leading figures bearing a sedan chair, in front of which Wingate stands, in uniform. Wingate arrived in Kunming on 8 February 1899, and was obliged to wait for about 12 days before being granted an interview with Sung-fan, Viceroy of Yü...
En route to interview the Viceroy of yun-kuei. The first British uniform in Yun-nan city. Understand the city wall, inside. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
Procession posed in front of the city walls of Kunming, the leading figures bearing a sedan chair, in front of which Wingate stands, in uniform. Wingate arrived in Kunming on 8 February 1899, and was obliged to wait for about 12 days before being granted an interview with Sung-fan, Viceroy of Yü...