Yanmenguan, Great Wall of China, with a Peking cart

Yanmenguan, Great Wall of China, with a Peking cart

Collection

Smith, Sydney

Identifier

LP01-64

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: LP01-64. No caption in the album for this photograph. Yanmenguan (Yanmen Pass, Xixingguan, Wild Goose Pass), Great Wall of China, Xinzhou, Shanxi (Shansi) Province. The slogans on each side of the gate are 實 and 信, aspects of thought promoted by the warlord Yan Xishan (閻錫山 Yen Hsi-shan) (1883-1960). Note the stele on a raised platform on the right. This gate still stands. See LP01-31, LP01-61 and LP01-65.

Location

Xinzhou

Estimated Date

1917

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph