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Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

【Street Scene of Xinzhou, Shanxi】Xinzhou has a long history and was founded in the Eastern Han Dynasty; this place is a dangerous fortress and frequent exchanges between merchants and merchants, and it has been a place where soldiers and families must fight for generations. Xinzhou culture is represented by northern Jin folk customs, Buddhism, and Jin shang culture; it has a long history. There have been many influential figures who have come out.

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

【Tianjin Jiefang Road Financial Street】In the late Qing Dynasty, the present-day Jiefang Road (Middle Street), which is a leased place, was gradually built as a gathering place for foreign banks; the Western buildings along the road were unique in shape, dazzling and dazzling. Various banks, trust companies, insurance companies, investment companies, etc., control the financial industry in Tianjin (and even north China); it is called the Oriental Wall Street.

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

【Houses in Weibei, Shaanxi province located on the mountainside of loess】Weibei is north of the Weihe River. The terrain here is complex, and the locals have built their own characteristics of loess such as insulation, sturdiness, and easy chiseling.

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

【Hanyang Ancient City of Hanjiang】Hanyang City is an ancient (Tang Dynasty) nickname for Hanyang District in Wuhan, which was demolished in the late 1920s.

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

In 1894, WL began operating a series of luxury hotels in major cities around the world, and its Beijing Grand Hotel in China was located in the embassy district of Dongjiaomin Lane, also known as the Six Nations Hotel.

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

The Bund, formerly known as Huangpu Beach, had a large number of private docks; later, the British denied all private docks and built the Junpu Line, and the name of the Bund was fixed ever since.

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

【Shaanxi Yanchang China's first onshore oil well】Yanchang County is located in the lower reaches of the Yanhe River, in the east of Yan'an City. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the use of oil was already discovered in Yanchang; at that time, there was floating crude oil on the surface of the water, which could be used for combustion. In the twenty-second year of the Qing Dynasty (1896), the oil exploitation was extended; in 1905, the factory was built here; in 1907, the first oil well was drilled.

Images of China a hundred years ago, 1913-1915

The road to the Gate of Nanjing was taken by Frederick Gardner Clapp (1879-1944) from 1913 to 1915.

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