A safe anchorage on the River Yao-Cha-Ho. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. View along the river towards cloud-covered mountains, with junks moored at the water’s edge in the foreground.
The T’ing-Tsu at Ch’ing-T’an Village. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the riverbank, with the village and pagoda on the hillside overlooking the water: 'This picture has an unusual interest inasmuch as it represents the locality where the late Captain Plant, ‘The Grand Old Man of the Yangtze,’ re...
The fore-shore at K’uei-fu. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. View towards the river at dusk: ‘In the middle foreground is part of the great shingle bank of Ch’ou-Yen-Chi (Stinking Flat), so named because brine is boiled out here during the low water season.'
In the Witches Gorge. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. ‘The Witches Gorge, commonly known as the Wushan Gorge, is the longest, most spectacular and impressive of all the great gorges. For twenty-five miles the river turns and twists through scenery of unparalleled beauty and grandeur. The mou...
Descending the Ch’ing T’an. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of a boat negotiating the rapids: ‘The deep water channel is close along the right bank (on the left hand) but the stream from thence sets directly on to the sharp pinnacles which form the Erh T’an (second or middle rapid). This pilot prefers to take the risk o...