Entrance to the Qutangxia Gorge, Yangtze Gorges

Entrance to the Qutangxia Gorge, Yangtze Gorges

Collection

Swire, G. Warren

Identifier

Sw29-154

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Sw29-154. Khaki cloth Kodak Negative Album, 12 cm x 9.5 cm. 187 negatives sized 1.5 inches x 1.25 inches -:- 40mm x 30mm. The album was later labelled P62/V.  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. Something like this view of Qutang Gorge (瞿塘峡) is printed on the Chinese bank note 10 Yuan (CNY) / 10 Renminbi (RMB). See Sw22-146.

Caption in album or on mount

Album cover: ‘R 4/1933 -4/34 China 1-23’ Album index: Folio (Sleeve) 82, two negatives: Gorges Mar

Date

March 1934

Photographer

Swire, G. Warren

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library, University of London