City Gate on the Yangtze River
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Title
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City Gate on the Yangtze River
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Caption
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[Color] Gate to a city on the Yangtse River closed by a boat because they believed the feng-shui was bad.
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Identifier
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DCG_038
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Alternative Identifier
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189, 331
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Description
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Three men with turbans frame the foreground of this photo of a city gate with wide and tall steps leading up to it. One can see the boat stuffed in the entranceway to block any passage into the city by that route, supposedly because the gate's fengshui is bad, so doing so would cause catastrophe. There appears to be a major lumber operation with stacks of logs and beams on the beach and on racks ready for transport. The poles in the foreground may be the kind of bamboo tubes used for salt mining. Unfortunately, Graham did not include the city name in his caption. It is most likely that he took this photo while he was stationed at Yibin (Suifu).
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Creator
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Graham, David Crockett
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Date Created
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1913-1931
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Location
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Yangtze River
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Original Format
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Glass plate
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Source
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Whitman College and Northwest Archives
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Provenance
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Jean Graham Brown and Dorothy Graham Edson, daughers of DCG, and Chris Hoogendyk, grandson of DCG.
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Record Date
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2024-09-24
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Contributor
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Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
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Type
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Still Image
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Published In
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Graham, David Crockett. 1928. Religion in Szechuan Province, China. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 80(4): Plate 9.
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Subject
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Yangtze River
