18 Gold-sifters on the Yangtze River

Title: 18 Gold-sifters on the Yangtze River
Caption: 1911 Chinese workers
Identifier: AEJ_073
Alternative Identifier: 163
Description: Seven men stand on a rocky field working a device that is used to sift for gold. They are wearing cotton shirts and trousers with turbans and bare feet. This is probably at Fuling on the Yangtze River about 75 miles east of Chongqing.
Creator: Johns, Alfred Edward
Date Created: 1910-1911
Location: Fuling, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1810979/fuling.html
Event: 1910-1911 Johns' First Yangtze River Journey
Original Format: Photographic print
Relation: Men Sifting Gold Dust on the Yangtze
Source: Ken Johns
Provenance: Johns Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2023-08-08
Contributor: Ken Johns; Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: A description of such "gold-sifters" at Fuling may be found in: William Gill. 1883. The River of Golden Sand, the narrative of a journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah. Henry Yule, ed. London: John Murray, p.255

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