Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Su01-22. No caption for this photograph in the album.  Detective Sub-Inspector John Sullivan, SMP, is standing. Police Constable Kay, SMP is sitting in the middle.  The farm worker looking after the pump is on the left.  The power wheel would have a cow (not shown) attached to it to drive it.  The wooden chain pump raises water from a waterway to flood a field of rice.

Estimated Date

1910

Tags

• clothing
• fashion
• SMP
• agriculture
• leisure
• Municipal
• field
• Shanghai
• police
• hat
• irrigation
• water
• paddy
• boater
• Sullivan

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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