Stupa in the Yellow Temple [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the stupa and gateway in front of the Huang si or Yellow Temple. For a detail of the sculpture on the base of the stupa, see print 32.
Wan Fo Ssu — Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a courtyard towards the main building of the (?)Wanshou si, the outer walls of which are covered with niches containing Buddha images.
Approach to the Pei Hai [Winter Palace, Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a graceful stone bridge towards the stupa rising on the hillside beyond: 'A bridge called the Yü ho Ch'iao divides the North Sea or Pei Hai from the Middle Sea or Chung Hai of the Winter Palace. From the east end of that bridge a smaller one ...
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...
The sculptured base of the stupa — Yellow Temple [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the base of the stupa in the Yellow Temple (Huang si), erected in memory of the Panshen Lama, who died smallpox during a visit to Beijing in the late 18th-century: 'The monument is modelled on Tibetan or Indian lines and stands 30 feet...
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...