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Where the steamers land in the Chukiang River, Canton, China – Historic Print

Where the steamers land in the Chukiang River, Canton, China, New York, N.Y. : Underwood & Underwood, c1900. — historic photograph
Where the steamers land in the Chukiang River, Canton, China, New York, N.Y. : Underwood & Underwood, c1900.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Steamers tied up along the Chukiang River, the older romanized name for the Pearl River, at Canton, the port now called Guangzhou. By about 1900 the city was a major trading center in southern China, and river steamers carried passengers and cargo between the port and the wider delta and coast. The stereo card was published in New York by Underwood & Underwood, a firm that sold stereoviews of distant places to home viewers who used hand-held stereoscopes to see the scene in three dimensions. The waterfront shown here offers a glimpse of how foreign shipping and river traffic met the city's older working harbor at the turn of the century.

Created / publishedNew York, N.Y. : Underwood & Underwood, c1900.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900.Stereographs 1900.
NotesD15714 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
SubjectsHarbors--China--Guangzhou--1900. Steamboats--China--Guangzhou--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-197634

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