Through the Nan Hsi Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a cart and a laden mule passing through the arched gateway, 'the most western of the three gates in the south wall of the Chinese city...The picture helps us realize the intensity of the light; on emerging from that gate one is in open country, in ...
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...
P'ai lou and marble bridge — Pai Hai [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking through the wooden gateway towards the bridge: 'This is the Jade Bridge already seen in No. III, but the view here is from the island end of it. The p'ai lou — merely decorative and not commemorative — is a very good specimen of the wooden structure...
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...