The pulled rickshaw – a two-wheeled passenger vehicle powered by the strength of a barefoot rickshaw coolie – is a predominant symbol of Asia in the 1900s. Used to carry goods and people around cities, these early forms of transport often provided migrants from rural villages a prime source of employment, and the wealthy a convenient mode of getting around town before buses and trains were invented.
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