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Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s step-great-grandmother, Mrs. Theron R. Butler, sits in a rickshaw for a studio portrait while traveling in Japan.
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Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s great-uncle, Henry M. Sanders, sits in a rickshaw for a studio portrait while traveling in Japan.
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This postcard shows a hotel at Anuradhaputa, Ceylon. Outside the building stand a number people, as well as a rickshaw and an ox cart. Charles C. Myers says that these are common sights, as horses are rare in India and Ceylon.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “A country inn by the wayside. Two ways of conveyance, the rickshaw and the ox cart.”
This postcard shows a rickshaw man and his rickshaw, along with a woman riding as passenger. Charles C. Myers shares that the rickshaw is one of the principle ways people travel.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “The native rickshaw at closer range.”
Postcard featuring a black and white photograph of Minatobashi Street in Yokohama, Japan. On the reverse side of the postcard, Charles C. Myers writes of the use of the “jin-rickshas” on busy, narrow streets like this one.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, ‘Another section along the busy streets.”
Postcard showing a Chinese woman sitting in a rickshaw being pulled by a Chinese man. Dragon motifs are visible in the top corners. Charles C. Myers comments on Chinese women’s use of rickshaws.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Chinese Rickshaw, similar to Japanese Rick-i-sha and used the same. In addition to this the Chinese use the sedan chair, which is a sort of chair with poles attached to it so as two or four men can carry it. This sort of a chair is used to carry fashionable women to their places of worship as their feet are so small and deformed by the use of wooden shoes that they can walk but very little. But for facial expression, I saw some Chinese women that were very good looking all except their eyes.”
This postcard shows rickshaws standing on the left and right sides of a wide plaza in front of the Yokohama train station. When the Great White Fleet visited Japan, several tables stood in this plaza serving refreshments to the sailors traveling to Tokyo.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “We will now go down to the station at Yokohama and take the train for Tokio [sic], about 2 hours run, and thru [sic] a beautiful country. The Japs are an artistic people and the whole country is as a park and no waste places, every foot of ground is used to some advantage. Passed many rice fields on the way to Tokyo and also passed several school houses. Ours being a special train the school children all knew when when we would be past their school house and at every place school was dismissed and the teacher and children were collected along the track and shouted welcome to us and waved american [sic] flags at us as we passed.”
This postcard shows two Japanese women riding in a rickshaw pulled by several men. Charles C. Myers states that these carts are the principal way of getting around Tokyo, and can be hired for a small amount of money.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “This is not a very good picture but represents the principal way of conveyance around the city. This little cart is called the Rick-i-sha and is pulled by a Jap and he will take you all around the city all day for a very small sum of one yen, which equals 50¢. Sometimes there are two or three Japs to a cart of the larger kind that carry two people.”