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...
By the Hsi Chih Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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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...
Within the Peihai — North Lake [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the wooden gate structure: 'This kind of p'ai lou, shored up with wooden poles, is not uncommon in Peking. To the foreign eye they lose much of their beauty, because we associate such buttresses with dangerous walls. It will be noted that in this...
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...