Inscription: Captioned in the negative. Genre: War Photography View along the rubble-choked street, with a group of women clambering over heaps of masonry in the foreground.
An-ting Mên Street [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the city wall looking down onto the busy street below: 'The An-ting...gate is the western gate in the north wall. It is the gate which was occupied by the Allies in 1860; but the street as they looked down on it was very different from the view h...
The utility shop [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the street showing customer gathered in front of an old-style shop selling basketware: 'No doubt the time will come when Peking shops will have plate-glass windows; but at present the ancient style prevails. The wares in this case are happily exposed i...
By the Hsi Chih Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the city wall towards the massive gatehouse tower, with a cart on the road in the foreground: 'This gate...which is the northern one in the western wall of the Tartar city, is certainly imposing if not sublime. The make-up of the wall, t...