Dike Builders Transporting Dirt

Item

Title
Dike Builders Transporting Dirt
Identifier
AEJ_35
Description
A very large group of dike workers with carrying poles on their shoulders with pairs of wooden buckets filled with soil. The two supervisors are on the right. In the foreground are pits from which the soil has been taken.
Creator
Johns, Alfred
Date Created
1912-02 to 1912-04
Location
Nganhwai [Anhui] and Kiangsu [Jiangsu] provinces, China
Source
Ken Johns
Provenance
Johns Family Archives
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2022-10-06
Contributor
Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
Type
Still Image
References
Johns, Alfred. 1928. “China: Its People and Their Life, May 2, 1918,” In The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pp.226-234. Toronto: Empire Club of Canada; For additional references see related Event page, "1912 Famine Relief"