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Contributor: 
P.A. Crush
Description: 
These pictures are of open-topped wooden freight wagons, packed with Chinese labourers (‘coolies’). Each year tens of thousands of these men were transported to Manchuria to work building railways and coastal defences in Manchuria. (A6/174 & A6/175)
Online Format: 
JPG
Category-1: 
Photo
Category-2: 
Train
Original Page: 
SECTION X(c) - AlbumP27/248
Copyright: 
P.A. Crush & C.W. Kinder