The Drum Tower [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view looking towards the Drum Tower, from an elevated position: 'The Drum Tower or Ku Lou...in the north part of the Tartar City datyes from the Yüan Dynasty, and stood then at the centre of Khubilai Khan's city of Cambaluc or Khanbaligh. The lowes...
Evening in the streets [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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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...
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...
The Ch'ien Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the massive gate tower, with pedestrians, carts and rickshaws on the paved roadway in the foreground: 'This is always known as the Ch'ien Mên...or Front Gate, though the proper and more dignified name is Chêng Yang Mên, as is plainly s...
A gateway in the Chinese city [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking through the double-arched brick gateway: 'The Chinese city, which lies south of the Tartar city and is much less known to foreign visitors, has 10 gates. The double gate connected by a curved wall is here shown very clearly; and the timber doo...
A street in old Peking. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography A busy street scene, looking towards the wooden, triple-arched gateway crossing the thoroughfare, with pedestrians, carts and other traffic on the roadway.
Pi Yün Ssu [Jade Cloud Temple, Western Hills]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the paved pathway leading to the steps and gateway into the Jade Cloud Temple in the Western Hills.
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 ...