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Archive Reference (shelfmark) L.R.420.c.10 Subject Roads and Highways Material Type Photographs

1. L.R.420.c.10(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(4)
Title:
An-ting Mên Street [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

2. L.R.420.c.10(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(6)
Title:
Ch'ing Lung Ch'iao — or Nank'ou Pass. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

3. L.R.420.c.10(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(14)
Title:
Marble gate at Chü Yung kuan. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

4. L.R.420.c.10(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(15)
Title:
Along the sunlit dusty street (near the Yung Ting Mên) [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Rear view of a cart on a dusty street in Beijing.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

5. L.R.420.c.10(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(20)
Title:
By the Hsi Chih Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

6. L.R.420.c.10(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(22)
Title:
A street in the Tartar city [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the city wall, looking down onto and along a street receding into the distance: 'The street, which, like many in Peking might be called Very Straight, has no unusual features. There is the modern macadamisation of the middle portion, the bricked ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

7. L.R.420.c.10(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(24)
Title:
'By the North Wall the wind blows full of sand' [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of laden donkey carts struggling along a Bejing street, amidst clouds of dust.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

8. L.R.420.c.10(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(26)
Title:
The rocky way — Nan-K'ou Pass. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
View of laden donkeys on the rock, unsurfaced road, passing through a village in the Nankow Pass.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

9. L.R.420.c.10(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(28)
Title:
The road to the Western Hills. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a camel caravan on the road to the Western Hills north-west of Beijing.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

10. L.R.420.c.10(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.420.c.10(31)
Title:
Evening in the streets [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along a Beijing street, famed by wooden archways: 'Evening is shown by the long shadows and absence of glare. The two wooden and buttressed triple archways are purely decorative. The new style of metalled road is clearly shown, with the deep bricked d...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 item

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