Sampan Collection

Man wearing a straw coolie hat sits on a stool, Hong Kong
A man wearing a straw coolie hat sits on a stool on small sampan wooden boat in Hong Kong. He is barefoot, holds the oars, wears a coolies hat and has a cigarette in his hand

Chinese boat (sampan). Date: 1842

Manila, Philippines - Tondo Canal. Date: circa 1920s

Chinese fishing boats 1857
River life among the Chinese, fishermen raising a large baskets. Date: 1857

A young woman on a small sampan wooden ferry boat
A young woman sits at the oars of a small sampan wooden ferry boat while waiting for passengers in Hong Kong harbour. She holds up a black umbrella to shade herself from the sun Date: 1982

Chef prepares a Peking Duck - floating restaurant, Hong Kong
A chef, stripped to the waist, prepares a Peking Duck in a floating restaurant kitchen on a sampan boat in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Date: 1982

An old woman on a junk in a typhoon shelter, Hong Kong
An old woman tidies up a rope in the stern of a junk sampan boat in a typhoon shelter in Kowloon, Hong Kong Date: 1982

Japanese barge-dweller hanging out her laundry
Japanese barge-dweller - Tokyo, Japan hanging out her laundry. Date: 1930s

Riverside Scene - Pegirian River, Surabaya, Java, Indonesia
Riverside Scene - The Pegirian River, Surabaya, Java, Indonesia Date: circa 1908

Chinese walled village on a river with sampan on the water.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

The imperial gardens of Summer Palace in Peking, circa 1800.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Singapore - Native Sampan boats moored on the riverbank Date: 1911

China - Shanghai - Sampan Boats on the waterfront Date: circa 1950s

China - Shanghai - Sea Shore with Quayside / Harbour Date: circa 1907

China - Shanghai - Old Garden Bridge
China - Shanghai - Soochow (Suzhou) Creek Bridge (Garden Bridge) (1873-1907) and public garden. The bridge was built by S.C. Farnham & Co. Date: circa 1905

Shanghai, China - Japanese Consulate and N. Y. K. Company
Shanghai, China - Japanese Consulate and N.Y.K. (Nippon Yusen Kaisha Lin) Shipping Company - Hunagpu River Waterfront. Date: circa 1910s

Shanghai, China - The Bund - View from Huangpu River
The Bund - a waterfront area in central Shanghai focused on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, along the western bank of the Huangpu River

Shanghai, China - The Bund foreshore
The Bund - a waterfront area in central Shanghai focused on a section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, along the western bank of the Huangpu River

Sampans in the Huangpu River - Shanghai, China
Wooden Sampan boats in the Huangpu River - Shanghai, China Date: 1928

Thien Mu Pagoda Pagoda, Perfume River, Hue, Vietnam
Thien Mu Pagoda (the tallest in Vietnam) on the banks of the Perfume River, Hue, Vietnam Date: circa 1910s

Hue, Vietnam - Sampan racing on the Perfume River
Sampan boat racing on the Perfume River which crosses the city of Hue in the central Vietnamese province of Thua Thien-Hue. Date: circa 1910s

ferry to Namaw - Moulmein
Ferry to Namaw - Moulmein - On to Namaw, a bigger, busier landing, with cluster of tin roofed bashas and its long road across the paddy fields

ferry landing - Moulmein
Ferry landing - Moulmein - Two days ago a river ferry was heavily laden with rubber and seventy passengers. In midstream suddenly split open with rot. None survived the ebbing tide

The Sampan Pagoda, Myanmar
Burma (Myanmar) - The Sampan Pagoda, with a golden stupa sitting atop this miraculously-balanced rock. In the history of Myanmar

Chinese Sampan Girl
A barefoot Chinese woman guides her sampan on the river at Canton, using a pole

China / Shau-Chew
The city of SHAU-CHEW 100 miles north of CANTON. A city on a river with a mountainous hinterland. A tower has been built upon a small island

China / Hu Kew Hyen
HU KEW HYEN or KYEW on the RIVER KYANG. A walled city set up high on a cliff above a busy trading river. Sampan with sails or oars can be seen

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