04 Trackers on Shore Preparing for the Gorges

Title: 04 Trackers on Shore Preparing for the Gorges See all items with this value
Identifier: NEB_07
Alternative Identifier: 579-20
Description: When the Bowles's houseboat reached the entrance to the Three Gorges above IChang (Yichang), the captain hired extra trackers who lived in this region specifically to perform this job. Sometimes over 100 trackers were needed to literally pull boats up the rapids. See all items with this value
Creator: Newton E. Bowles
Date Created: 1907
Location: Three Gorges region, Upper Yangtze River between Ichang and Fengjie See all items with this value
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/6354946/three-gorges-dam.html
Event: 1906-1907 Bowles' First Yangtze River Journey
Original Format: Photographic Print
Source: David Rutherford
Provenance: Bowles Family Archives See all items with this value
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Contributor: Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Published In: Newton Bowles Memoires: Part 2: On to China