07 Wind-Box Gorge on the Yangtze

Title: 07 Wind-Box Gorge on the Yangtze
Caption: View in the Yangtze Gorges above Ichang.
Identifier: DCG_034
Alternative Identifier: 30, 60
Description: Two other images of this location note that this photograph is taken looking downstream as the Yangtze flows from Sichuan to the coast. The Wind-Box Gorge is located between Fengjie Xian (Kweichowfu), Sichuan, and Wushan, Sichuan. It is the shortest and narrowest of the three gorges, providing the most dramatic views and the most dangerous houseboat rides. As a travel narrative by Edward Wallace shows, it is possible to see and photograph this view when travelling upsteam by simply looking off the back of the boat.
Creator: Graham, David Crockett
Date Created: 1913
Location: Qutang Xia
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1797292/qutang-xia.html
Event: 1913 Graham's First Yangtze River Journey
Original Format: Glass plate
Source: Whitman College and Northwest Archives
Provenance: Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughers of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2024-09-24
Contributor: Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Wind Box Gorge Looking Downstream, Upper Yangtze River – 1922 oil painting; Wind Box Gorge and temple, Upper Yangtze River (Historic Photographs of China)
Subject: Yangtze River