Huang-Ling Miao. (The Temple of the Yellow Peaks). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View across the river towards the village and temples, set among bamboo groves, with mountains beyond.
Wên-Shan. (The Mountain of Learning). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. ‘Viewed from this foreshore of the city of Wushan, the huge bulk of Wên-Shan appears to close the passage completely, and it is difficult to believe that a great river flows past its base and turns to the left behind it.’
Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. View looking down onto two junks negotiating the ‘Glorious Dragon Rapid.’ ‘The view is taken from an immense pile of rocks — comprising the major part of the landslip [which created the rapid in 1896] — 80 feet above zero level.’
Hung-Chuan. (‘Red Boats’ — the life-boats of the Yangtze). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View of two lifeboat junks with striped sails on the river, with cliffs to the right: ‘The life-boat service of the upper river was organised in the Ch’ing dynasty … Since the inauguration of the Republic, the continual internecine strife...
A Bridge at Wan-Hsien. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View along the stream looking towards the single-spanned masonry bridge, surmounted by a building, with houses rising up the hillside on the right: ‘The airy span of this beautiful arch connects the city of Wan-Hsien with its western suburb...
Silent Vigil in the Misty Vale of Wan. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View from high above the river looking down onto the stream, with a shrine and large tree on the ridge in the foreground.