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Marco Polo Bridge, Beijing, China, ca.1930

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Title: Marco Polo Bridge, Beijing, China, ca.1930
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1930
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: "By Bossart - Marco Polo Bridge" A covered section near edge of bridge, in a state of disrepair.
Lugou Qiao, also known as the Marco Polo Bridge, is one of earliest segmented stone arch bridge about 16 km in the outside of Beijing.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints, 12.7 x 17.6 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m5690 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-019-0002-0053
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m5690
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-019-0002-0053.jpg
Subject: Bridges
General views
Time Period: circa 1930
Place: Asia
China
Source: YDS/RG008/019/0002/0053 [File]
Relation: George and Dorothy Barbour Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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