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Images

  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
  • Hong Kong: westerners promenading and taking sedan chairs along Kennedy Road. Wood engraving after C.J. Uren, 1883.
  • A bride and a bridegroom talking to one another as they are carried separately in sedan chairs. Tinted lithograph by F. Jones, 1860, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • European men and women being transported by Indian men, in a coach drawn by oxen, in sedan chairs, and in a carriage pulled by men. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • a sedan chair. Photograph by John Thomson
  • Sedan chair of Professor James Hamilton, last used in Edinburgh
  • Bearers in China carrying a sedan chair suspended between poles. Wood engraving.
  • Hong Kong: a sedan chair at the foot of the Peak. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.
  • Hong Kong: a sedan chair at the foot of the Peak. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

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