"Bridge at Chaochowfu [Chao'an]. River level moderate." Houses that are in poor condition stand on a bridge. Five boats are in the water next to each other. In the distance, two men are rowing a small boat. There are few men in the foreground by the five boats.
Subject (Geographic):
Chao'an (Guangdong Sheng, China)
Subject (Topic):
Bridges; Buildings; Indigenous populations; Transport
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 19 | Folder 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Bridge at Wanhsien [now Wanxian] Szechwan [now Sichuan] Chinese made Print from Negative by George Barbour Arched bridge with building on top. Women washing clothes along riverside.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., General Pei Bao San built this culvert bridge for use by his newly purchased fleet of Dodge. Bros. trucks and touring cars. My father prepared stencils for the anglicized words. Years later the masonry washing way. [caption written by Morgans' son Carrel] A stone bridge with four round culverts is labeled "Haichow Kiangsu" over one culvert and "March 1926 A.D." over another., and 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.
36. Road & Bridge. On a gently-rolling plain, a road and a stone bridge cross a small river., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "EDWARD SANDERS, MISSAO INGLEZA, BIE ANGOLA".
"The short section of the Big Bridge looking from the Southside island towards Gouq Ciu. The old abatements were wood. Bridge was finished for traffic about February 1932." and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Four men are walking across a bridge made of branches., and The back of the postcard is blank and includes: "Eigendom van Scheut (Kongo) Propriete de Scheut." There is also information about the mission agency on the back of the postcard: "Missie van Kangu- Mission de Kangu" The back of the postcard also contains the caption: "Inlandsche brug. - Pont indigene" ("Indigenous bridge") "Kongo (Mayombe)"
