Captain and Crew of a Yangtze River Houseboat, 1911

Title: Captain and Crew of a Yangtze River Houseboat, 1911
Caption: The houseboat is stuck on a sand bar and the boatmen are pushing it off. 1911 Between Ichang (now Yichang) & Chungking
Identifier: AEJ_23
Alternative Identifier: 21
Description: Shot from the back end of a houseboat looking toward the bow, five crew members pose while the captain stands with his back facing the camera, looking towards the companion houseboat, said to be the one with fellow missionaries aboard, which is stuck on a sandbar. Note the rope extending up into the cliffs where the trackers are using it to pull the boat.
Creator: Johns, Albert Edward
Date Created: 1911
Location: Yangtze River Gorges (30.808993, 111.057751)
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/6354946/three-gorges-dam.html
Event: 1911-1912 Nationalist Revolution Evacuation
Original Format: photographic print
Source: Ken Johns
Provenance: Johns Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2022-10-06
Contributor: Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image