Hand tinted image. An outdoor candid portrait of a Soochow Creek (Wusong Jiang) filled with boats transporting lumber. All the boats appear to be made of wood and are of various sizes and designs. People are seen on the boats operating long oars. On the left side of the image is a tall cement wall lined with railing. Wooden utility poles and pedestrians walking can be seen in front of tall buildings. In the background people travel over a steel bridge identified as the Garden Bridge, which spans the creek. Known as the Garden Bridge in English, the bridge remains an important transportation channel in metropolitan Shanghai. A British company built the bridge nearly a century ago in 1907. Today in China few people know the English name of the bridge but it is well known by its native name: Waibadu Qiao.
Two men stand on a wooden plank embedded into the base of a large tree. Each man poses holding an axe that rests in a cut-out section of the tree. The man on the left side of the image holds a a glass bottle and a long saw with a wooden handle. Both men are dressed in hats, long sleeved shirts, suspenders, trousers, and shoes. Visible lying on the ground at the base of the tree are large leaves and a pile of wood chips. The men are flanked on either side by large tree trunks. The background of the image is filled with trees.
A man stands in front of a 12 foot spruce log that is being transported on a railway car. The man balances on the railway car's hitch with his arms extended horizontally spanning a portion of the spruce log. The man is dressed in a hat, long sleeved button-up shirt with pockets, gloves, trousers, and boots. Railway ties, dirt, rocks, and shrubs are visible in the foreground. Trees, tree stumps, rocks, and a railroad track are visible in the background.
A view of a tree top in the process of falling to the ground. The tree has been identified a being 260 feet tall. A man is visible harnessed to the base of where the tree top has been cut. The ground below is filled with tree stumps and cut wood. In the background a forest filled with trees is visible.
