Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Sw22-146. Khaki cloth Kodak Negative Album, 12 cm x 16 cm. 149 negatives (sized 3.25 inches x 5.5 inches, 92mm x 147mm). The album was later labelled P1/X on the back cover.  The large rock in the river is Yanyudui (Yen-Yu-Shih - The Goose-Tail Rock).  Yanyudui was a great rock in the entrance to the Qutangxia Gorge.  It was dynamited in 1957.  See Sw29-154.

Caption in album or on mount

Album cover: ‘K Aug 1927 – April 1929 Home Nos 1 - 71 China Nos 72 – end’ Album index: Folio (Sleeve) 99, two negatives: Yangtze Gorges

Estimated Date

1929

Tags

• river
• rock
• mountains
• Swire
• gorge
• hazard

Photographer

Swire, G. Warren

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London

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