Yangtze Gorges Steamer

Title: Yangtze Gorges Steamer
Caption: Steamer on the Yangtze in gorges above Ichang.
Identifier: DCG_036
Alternative Identifier: 31, 61
Description: Steamers could not navigate the Yangtze above Yichang before 1918, so Graham must not have taken this photograph on his first trip up the river in 1913. By 1918 or 1919, various countries including Germany and Japan had developed specially constructed small steamers such as this one to navigate the turbulent water of the Yangtze Gorges. One can see the two small smokestacks on top of the middle of the boat. The entire boat is dwarfed by the massive cliff face behind it.
Creator: Graham, David Crockett
Date Created: 1918-1932
Location: Yangtze River Gorges
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/6354946/three-gorges-dam.html
Original Format: Glass plate
Source: Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Provenance: Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughers of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2024-09-24
Contributor: Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Subject: Yangtze River