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Title
Bridge over Datong river, Gansu, China, 1936
Creator
Pickens, Claude L
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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
The Bridge across the Tatung River which divides the Provinces of Tsinghai and Kansu north of the Sining River near which this picture was taken. To the right is Kansu, to the left is Tsinghai, Moslem governed territory, which includes the Northern part of Tibet. Such cantilever bridges are common in Tsinghai, Ma Pu-fang having constructed a number of new ones only recently.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 7 x 9.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m2972 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0001-0004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2972
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0001-0004.jpg
Subject
Bridges
General views
Time Period
1936
Place
China
Kansu
Source
YDS/RG008/333/0001/0004 [File]
Relation
Claude L. Pickens, Jr. 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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