Elephant and mahout

Title : Elephant and mahout

Topic : Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Location : Unknown

Estimated dates : 1896 – 1902

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Paper

Caption on support : Elephant belonging to the Prince of Meng lien

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: FC01-05. Note in the album: Fred. W. Carey, HM Customs, China. Stratford …Castle, Salisbury, Eng. The photos in this book are enlargements of snapshots taken by me during the period 1896 – 1902 inclusive, whilst I was stationed at Szemao in the province of Yunnan. Some of them were obtained on my journey homeward through the Shan States, Burma, and India. F.W.C. Frederic William Carey served in the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1891-1928. A set of Carey's lantern slides entitled 'Yunnan' is in the collection of the Royal Geographical Society. Carey (then Commissioner of Customs) gave a lantern slide lecture in Ningpo (Ningbo) on 9 February 1922, on ‘Native Life on the Burma-Yunnan Frontier’. This photograph may have been taken in Burma (Myanmar). Domesticated Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), used in forestry.

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