Approaching the Chin Rapids

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Title: Approaching the Chin Rapids
Caption: Chin Rapids
Identifier: SEFA_049
Alternative Identifier: Simpson Album p10
Description: Taken from the front of the houseboat, the photo depicts calm waters in the foreground, approaching turbulent waters rounding a peninsula on the right and mountains in the background.
Commentary: The Chin Rapids were within the Xiling Gorge, the first of the three gorges when traveling west, just above Yichang.
Creator: E. Kyle Simpson
Date Created: Between 1913-03-10 and 1913-03-22
Location: Yangtze Gorges
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/6354946/three-gorges-dam.html
Event: 1913 Dr. E. Kyle Simpson's First Yangtze River Voyage
Original Format: Photographic print
Relation: Cargo Boat Shooting the Rapid in Xiling Gorge
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.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-09-28
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Kyle Jolliffe
Type: Still Image
References: "Of course you would like me to tell you something of the gorges. Even my kodak fails to do them any degree of justice. They wait to be the crowning glory of some unknown artist's brush. Sometimes the rocks rise almost perpendicularly several hundred feet above the water level. Where they are not so steep and there is any chance of obtaining his dinner, then the caves are inhabited."; 1913 Letter from Dr. E. Kyle Simpson, Chungking, West China

Item sets: Simpson-Estabrook Family Archives

Media: SEFA_049_Simpson Album p10 Chin Rapids.jpg

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