1944 Min Diversion 2

Title: 1944 Min Diversion 2
Caption: Min-diversion2
Identifier: WFA_030
Alternative Identifier: 2
Description: Looking directly east across the Inner River, the dam opening has grown larger. Spectators watch from the Fishmouth to the left. Workers oversee the dam operation at the right.
Creator: Donald Willmott
Date Created: 1944-04 (Qingming Festival)
Location: Dujiangyan, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1809831/dujiangyan.html
Event: 1944 Dujiangyan Opening of the Waters Ceremony
Physical Dimensions: 1 1/2" x 2 1/2"
Original Format: Black and white photographic print
Provenance: Passed down from K & E Willmott to Don Willmott, and then to Cory Willmott. Digitized in 2008 by Elizabeth Willmott.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2024-11-17
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: https://www2.oberlin.edu/library/digital/shansi/timeline.html
abstract: This image belongs to a series of images that Don Willmott took while he was teaching English at the Ming Hsien School, which had moved to northwest of Chengdu during WWII. He used 6 of these images in a slide lecture that he presented at a variety of venues in the 2000s.