[Water-carrier]
- Title:
- [Water-carrier]
- Collection:
- Willard D. Straight in Korea
- Date:
- ca. 1904
- Country:
- South Korea
United States - ID Number:
- 1260.57.27.01
- Collection Number:
- 1260
- File Name:
- 1260.57.27.01.tif
- Work Type:
- Photographs
- Subject:
- Labor
Water wells
Drinking water
Buckets (vessels) - Measurement:
- 10 x 14.1 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Water for commoners came mainly from communal wells, except for some (aristocratic) 'yangban' households that maintained their own. Households without their own wells used water supplied by water carriers balancing two buckets on a shoulder-pole. Source: Pratt, Keith. Old Seoul, 2002. p. 31. eTo supply a large city with water from neighborhood wells is a work of no small magnitude, and the water-carrier is a recognised institution, which boasts of a powerful guild. The work is genuine and hard, and the pay is correspondingly high.e Homer B. Hulbert. Source: First encounters : Korea 1880-1910, 1982. P.101.
- Cite As:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers, #1260. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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