Bridge of the Curved Back — Summer Palace [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the bridge, with a boat passing beneath: 'This marble bridge is on the K'un Ming Lake of the Summer Palace. The single span is twenty-four feet, and the height of thirty feet under the arch was to allow the Imperial pleasure barge to pass. It has the name Lo...
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View across the lake in the public park, with the dome of the Capitol visible on the skyline on the right. Stereo half, arched top.
Sarusawa Pond at Nara. Photographer: Tamamura, Kohzaburo
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Inscription: Numbered and captioned in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the ornamental lake at Sarasuwa-ike, towards the five-storey pagoda of the Kofuku-ji temple.
View of the Garden, looking north-west. Photographer: Thompson, Charles Thurston
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the garden towards the conservatory, with figures posed around the miniature lake in the foreground.