A safe anchorage on the River Yao-Cha-Ho. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. View along the river towards cloud-covered mountains, with junks moored at the water’s edge in the foreground.
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.
Temple of the Ethereal Bell of a Thousand Ages. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View looking across the river towards the temple, ‘perched on the right bank of the river, directly opposite the city of Yün-yang. Unlike the decaying and neglected aspect of so many fine temples in China, it is kept in excellent repair. ...
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...
The Rock-Bound Mouth of the Niu-Kan, Ma-Fei Hsia. (Ox Liver, Horse’s Lung Gorge. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the gorge towards mountains on the horizon: ‘At the head of the Zigzag Reaches is the Niu-kan, Ma-fei Hsia, or Ox-liver Gorge, the magnificent portals of which are called Tong-ling Hsia, or Pierced Mountain Gorge. At their foot...