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Opening of the Waters - Water Breaking through Dam 1

Title: Opening of the Waters - Water Breaking through Dam 1
Caption: Opening of the Water Ceremony - Temporary dam broken and water begins to flow into Chengdu irrigation system.
Identifier: JOW_63
Description: A crowd watches in the foreground as water begins to flow through the broken temporary dam at Dujiangyan Opening of the Waters ceremony. Small flat boat or raft near the dam.
Creator: Ralph Outerbridge
Date Created: 1938-04-07
Location: Dujiangyan, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1809831/dujiangyan.html
Event: 1939 Dujiangyan Opening of the Waters
Physical Dimensions: 9 h x 9 w cm
Original Format: black and white photographic print
Source: Judith Outerbridge Walker
Provenance: Ralph and Margaret Outerbridge Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2024-08-19
Contributor: Derek Burns, Nicholas Fowler, Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
Published In: Description of this event pp. 30-31, Munro, Beyond the Moon Gate
Subject: ceremony; river; dam; engineering