Passenger Barrow

Attributed to John Thomson (Scottish, 1837 - 1921)

Dateca. 1870

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 2 1/8 × 3 7/16 inches (5.41 × 8.69 cm)
Mount: 2 7/16 × 4 1/8 inches (6.15 × 10.49 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.67.95

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InscribedPrinted captions on paper, attached to mount verso, in black type: "Passenger Barrow. / China with all its civilization of ancient / date--its learning, and long established / schools of philosophy, has not yet arrived / at the luxury of Hansom Cabs--the only / approach to a wheeled vehicle for the / conveyance of passengers, is the sort of / hand barrow, like a scissors grinder's on / one wheel, shown in this photograph.-- / Two sitters, one on each side of the wheel / are trundled along at a rate of about two miles an hour, and as the primitive tra- / velling in this manner may be more easily / imagined than described.--"

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DescriptionHand colored image of two women being pushed in a "passenger barrow" through grassy terrain. Each sits on either side of the large wheel as a man pushes from behind using wooden handles.

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