Butterfield & Swire boat and riverside at Kiukiang

Title : Butterfield & Swire boat and riverside at Kiukiang

Topic : Warren Swire collection

Year : 1906-1907

Location : Unknown

Date (start) : 1906

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Negative

Caption on support : Album cover: B&S River Ports Coast Ports Hong Kong Japan Album index: Folio (Sleeve) 12, one negative: Kiukiang (The word 'Kiukiang' was deleted, but also underlined and the word 'Ngankin' entered instead)

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: sw02-016. G W Swire referenced each negative in this album with the prefix B written in India ink. This negative is referenced B12. The album itself has also been archived at some stage with the reference P1/I. In GWS's album index entry for this negative, he wrote 'Ngankin'. However, this is not a photo of the steamship 'Ngankin'. It is possible that GWS took this photo from the river steamer 'Ngankin', which served the Lower and Middle Yangtze between Shanghai and Hankow.

Keywords : Swire;junk;passenger;temple;house;timber;flag;Jiujiang