Summer Cottage in the Chongqing Hills

Item

Title
Summer Cottage in the Chongqing Hills See all items with this value
Caption
Summer Cottage, Chungking Hills See all items with this value
Identifier
SEFA_061
Alternative Identifier
Simpson Album p13
Description
Large brick house at the top of a hill with stairs leading up to it. The house appears to be a single-story building with extremely high ceilings. A person standing in front of the outbuilding provides a sense of scale. See all items with this value
Commentary
The "Chungking Hills" were the two ranges of mountains on the east side of the Yangtze from Chongqing city. The cottages were in the Second Range in the neighborhood now known as Nanshan. See all items with this value
Date Created
Between 1913-04-03 and 1913-03-11
Location
Nanshan Neighborhod, Chongqing See all items with this value
Geonames
https://www.geonames.org/8640893/nanshan.html
Event
1913 Dr. E. Kyle Simpson's First Yangtze River Voyage
Original Format
Photographic print
Is Part Of
Simpson-Estabrook Photo Album
Source
Courtesy of Kyle Jolliffe
Provenance
E. Kyle Simpson photos curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by her. In the care of Kyle Jolliffe. See all items with this value
Access Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
Publisher
SIUE
Record Date
2026-09-29
Contributor
Cory Willmott; Kyle Jolliffe
Type
Still Image
References
1913 Letter from Dr. E. Kyle Simpson, Chungking, West China
Media
SEFA_061_Simpson Album p13 Summer Cottage at Chungking Hills.jpg
Resource class
Image