Bride's Chair, Changde, Hunan, China, ca. 1910-1937

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Title: Bride's Chair, Changde, Hunan, China, ca. 1910-1937
Published / Created: 1910-1937
Publication Place: China, Asia
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Bride's Chair. Should be bright red - color is rather muted here. When I was little, I sometimes heard the bride weeping on her way to the wedding. And why not? Often she had never even seen her husband-to-be; and her mother-in-law? Chinese men are carrying an ornately decorated bride's chair through a city street.
Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.

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