Yanmenguan, Great Wall of China, with a Peking cart
Collection
Identifier
LP01-64
Copyright
© 2012 Lydia Parbury
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.