Dike Workers In the Field

Title: Dike Workers In the Field
Identifier: AEJ_36
Description: Wide angle shot of the dike construction project. The background shows several dozen men working along the dike wall with wheelbarrows and shovels. A small group in the foreground appear to be at rest near the bottom of the pits from which they are digging soil for the dike.
Creator: Johns, Alfred
Date Created: 1912-02 to 1912-04
Location: Nganhwai [Anhui] and Kiangsu [Jiangsu] provinces, China
Event: 1912 Famine Relief
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
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"