Donkey chair, Jiangsu, China, ca. 1905-1915

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Title: Donkey chair, Jiangsu, China, ca. 1905-1915
Published / Created: 1905-1915
Publication Place: China, Asia
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan were American medical missionaries in the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces of China, serving under the Presbyterian and Methodist mission boards from 1905 to 1946.
This is a donkey chair. Loren's was a mule chair. This has bamboo poles which give a little. His had solid pine poles, rigid and springless. Two Chinese men are standing by two donkeys carrying a chair attached to two long bamboo poles.
Extent: 8.3 x 14 cm.

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