Summer Cottage in the Chongqing Hills

Title: Summer Cottage in the Chongqing Hills
Caption: Summer Cottage, Chungking Hills
Identifier: SEFA_061
Alternative Identifier: Simpson Album p13
Description: Large brick house at the top of a hill with stairs leading up to it. The house appears to be a single-story building with extremely high ceilings. A person standing in front of the outbuilding provides a sense of scale.
Commentary: The "Chungking Hills" were the two ranges of mountains on the east side of the Yangtze from Chongqing city. The cottages were in the Second Range in the neighborhood now known as Nanshan.
Date Created: 1913
Location: Nanshan Neighborhod, Chongqing
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/8640893/nanshan.html
Event: 1913 Dr. E. Kyle Simpson's First Yangtze River Voyage
Original Format: Photographic print
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: 2026-09-29
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Kyle Jolliffe
Type: Still Image