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Photo, Print, Drawing Water-Lifting Wheel on the Huang He (Yellow River), Northern Part of City Wall of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, 1875.

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Title

  • Water-Lifting Wheel on the Huang He (Yellow River), Northern Part of City Wall of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China, 1875.

Summary

  • In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich Boiarskii. The mission proceeded from Saint Petersburg to Shanghai via Ulan Bator (Mongolia), Beijing, and Tianjin, and then followed a route along the Yangtze River, along the Great Silk Road through the Hami oasis, to Lake Zaysan, back to Russia. Boiarskii took some 200 photographs, which constitute a unique resource for the study of China in this period. Most of the photographs are included in this album, which later became part of the Thereza Christina Maria Collection assembled by Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and given by him to the National Library of Brazil.

Names

  • Boiarskii, Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1875.

Headings

  • -  China--Gansu Province--Lanzhou
  • -  1875
  • -  Buildings
  • -  City walls
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Rivers
  • -  Waterwheels
  • -  Yellow River (China)

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photo : albumen paper, black and white ; 19.6 x 26.7 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Brazil.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China, 1874-75

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669658

Online Format

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Boiarskii, Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Photographer. Water-Lifting Wheel on the Huang He Yellow River, Northern Part of City Wall of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. Lanzhou China Gansu Province, 1875. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669658/.

APA citation style:

Boiarskii, A. E. P. (1875) Water-Lifting Wheel on the Huang He Yellow River, Northern Part of City Wall of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. Lanzhou China Gansu Province, 1875. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669658/.

MLA citation style:

Boiarskii, Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Photographer. Water-Lifting Wheel on the Huang He Yellow River, Northern Part of City Wall of Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669658/>.