A photograph of a Chinese wheelbarrow man, dressed in loose short trousers with loose dark jacket, sandals and light-coloured hat in Shanghai. He pushes an empty, wooden-spoked, single-wheeled wooden barrow. To his right is a single storey European style building with small walled front garden and gate.

In front of the gate is a two wheeled pulled-rickshaw with a single occupant - a Chinese man dressed smartly in Chinese-style clothes and a Qing-dynasty hairstyle of shaven forehead and queue at the back. The rickshaw puller - who has set the rickshaw down and has his back to the camera - is dressed in light short trousers, light jacket, and a traditional Chinese conical straw hat.

Further down the road to the right is another slightly larger European style building with an arched collonade behind some trees. At the right of the photograph is another barefoot rickshaw puller with white shirt, brimmed European-style hat and short trousers, pulling a covered rickshaw.

The accompanying contact print was labelled on the reverse: 'A Yangtze wheel barrow and wheel barrow-man, Shanghai 1900' and the original negative envelope was labelled: 'Wheel barrow-man. Shanghai 1900'.