The Chinese Substitute for Horse Power - Manipulating a Huge Stone Roller on the Streets of Nanking, China – Vintage Photo Print
(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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A window into the past: The Chinese Substitute for Horse Power - Manipulating a Huge Stone Roller on the Streets of Nanking, China, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Chinese Substitute for Horse Power - Manipulating a Huge Stone Roller on the Streets of Nanking, China
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In this stereograph, the title's "Chinese substitute for horse power" is literal: people, not animals, haul a massive stone roller through a street in Nanking, with ropes running from the cylinder to the workers. Rollers like this were used to press and level road surfaces, and the card, dated around 1906, shows how human muscle often took on work that draft animals did elsewhere. The card was issued by the Keystone View Company, which registered its copyright, and its caption tracings also name Chinkiang and Nanking, placing the scene in the Yangtze River region.
| Created / published | c1906 Dec. 22. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | H87619 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Industries, primitive; China--Chinkiang; China--Nanking; China--Misc.; Rope; Machinery; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,341 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130543 |
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