Cargo Boat Shooting the Rapid in Xiling Gorge

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Title: Cargo Boat Shooting the Rapid in Xiling Gorge
Caption: Cargo Boat Shooting the Rapid
Identifier: SEFA_050
Alternative Identifier: Simpson Album p10
Description: A large Chinese cargo boat emerges from between a narrow passage where it "shot" the Chin Rapids. The boat has three compartments covered with bamboo mats. Boatmen are using oars in the back of the boat to steer.
Commentary: This photo must have been taken a few minutes after SEFA-049, since it shows the same scene, only closer with the boat in view.
Creator: E. Kyle Simpson
Date Created: Between 1913-03-10 and 1913-03-22
Location: Yangtze Gorges
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/6354946/three-gorges-dam.html
Event: 1913 Dr. E. Kyle Simpson's First Yangtze River Voyage
Original Format: Photographic print
Relation: Approaching the Chin Rapids
Is Part Of: Simpson-Estabrook Photo Album
Source: Courtesy of Kyle Jolliffe
Provenance: E. Kyle Simpson photos curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by her. In the care of Kyle Jolliffe.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-09-28
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Kyle Jolliffe
Type: Still Image
References: "Of course you would like me to tell you something of the gorges. Even my kodak fails to do them any degree of justice. They wait to be the crowning glory of some unknown artist's brush. Sometimes the rocks rise almost perpendicularly several hundred feet above the water level. Where they are not so steep and there is any chance of obtaining his dinner, then the caves are inhabited."; 1913 Letter from Dr. E. Kyle Simpson, Chungking, West China

Item sets: Simpson-Estabrook Family Archives

Media: SEFA_050_Simpson Album p10 Cargo Boat Shooting the Yangtze River Rapids.jpg

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