Genre: Landscape Photography View along the tree-lined road: 'An ancient avenue twenty miles in length, leading from Utsunomiya to Nikko, either side being lined the entire distance by lofty cryptomerias.'
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...
Ch'ing Lung Ch'iao — or Nank'ou Pass. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto the roadway and village houses in the Nankow Pass: 'The Nank'ou or Southern Pass is about 25 miles from Peking, on the way to Kalgan...This is a typical hill village and hill road in North China. It is pure unmitigated China. In a thousand yea...
Marble gate at Chü Yung kuan. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a man with laden donkeys, passing through the archway: 'It is an arch rather than a gate, and a glance shows that it is very beautiful and that it is not all in Chinese style. Chü Yung Kuan...is a few miles beyond Nank'ou, close to the Great Wall, and th...
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...