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[PHOTOGRAPHIE] CHINE, YUNNAN, VIETNAM, TONKIN « Vues de la Ligne de Laokay
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[PHOTOGRAPHY] CHINA, YUNNAN, VIETNAM, TONKIN "Views of the Laokay Line in Mong.Tse Yunnan (China)".
Small album of 25 vintage silver prints mounted on paper. Views of landscapes, bridges, populations, construction of the Yunnan railway line. Two annotated maps of the railway line are included.
Album size 16.2 x 29.5 cm
PROVENANCE: Personal collection of a public works contractor active in Asia in the 1910s and involved in the construction of the Yunnan railway line, then by descent.
NOTE: The Yunnan railroad was the most extravagant construction project in French Indochina. Intended to link Tonkin to its Chinese neighbor, it was inaugurated on March 31, 1910. The line covers 465 km, with more than 3,400 engineering structures, 22 metal viaducts and 155 tunnels. Built in record time between 1904 and 1909, under difficult working conditions (complex topography, climate, disease, wild animals, etc.), it mobilized more than 60,000 workers and engineers. It is one of the sections of the Indochina and Yunnan Railways, linking Yunnanfou (now Kunming) to Hai Phong, via Mongtse (now Bisezhai station) and the border town of Lao Cai.
Small album of 25 vintage silver prints mounted on paper. Views of landscapes, bridges, populations, construction of the Yunnan railway line. Two annotated maps of the railway line are included.
Album size 16.2 x 29.5 cm
PROVENANCE: Personal collection of a public works contractor active in Asia in the 1910s and involved in the construction of the Yunnan railway line, then by descent.
NOTE: The Yunnan railroad was the most extravagant construction project in French Indochina. Intended to link Tonkin to its Chinese neighbor, it was inaugurated on March 31, 1910. The line covers 465 km, with more than 3,400 engineering structures, 22 metal viaducts and 155 tunnels. Built in record time between 1904 and 1909, under difficult working conditions (complex topography, climate, disease, wild animals, etc.), it mobilized more than 60,000 workers and engineers. It is one of the sections of the Indochina and Yunnan Railways, linking Yunnanfou (now Kunming) to Hai Phong, via Mongtse (now Bisezhai station) and the border town of Lao Cai.