Photo, Print, Drawing Huailai He 56 hao qiao you dong shou bei mian ce wang jing. 怀来河56号桥由东首北面侧望景.

Title

• Huailai He 56 hao qiao you dong shou bei mian ce wang jing.

Other Title

• 怀来河56号桥由东首北面侧望景.

Translated Title

• Northeast View of the Number 56 Huailai River Bridge.

Summary

• This photograph shows a northeast side view of the Huailai River Bridge, located along the Jing-Zhang (or Beijing-Zhangjiakou) railroad line. The bridge was 200 meters long and constructed with steel frames. This was the longest bridge on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railroad line. Here, a railway maintenance car is seen on top of the bridge, with rail workers. The photograph is from Jing-Zhang lu gong cuo ying (Photographs of the Jing-Zhang Railway construction), an album issued in 1909 to mark the opening of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway (formerly known as the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway), the first railroad in China designed, built, and financed by the Chinese, without foreign involvement. The photographs in the album were taken between 1905 and 1909 by the Tongsheng Photo Studio of Shanghai. The construction had three phases: the first line, from Fengtai to Nankou, was completed in September 1906. The second line, from Nankou to Kangzhuang, was completed in September 1908. The third part of the railroad, from Kangzhuang to Zhangjiakou, was finished in September 1909. The total length of the line, from Fengtai in Beijing to Zhangjiakou, was about 200 kilometers. The two-volume album depicts scenes along the railroad, including its main sections, railway stations, factory buildings, locomotives, bridges, and tunnels and culverts, as well as scenes of laborers at work during the construction and of the festivities celebrating the opening of the railway. Views and scenic spots at various stops along the line are clearly depicted, and provide a complete and systematic overview of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway at the time. Presented here is volume one.

Names

• Tongsheng Photo Studio (Firm) Photographer.

Created / Published

• Shanghai : Tongsheng Photo Studio (Firm), [1908 to 1909]

Headings

• -  China--Hebei Province
• -  1908 to 1909
• -  Bridges
• -  Description and travel
• -  Jing-Zhang (Beijing-Zhangjiakou) Railway (China)
• -  Railroad bridges
• -  Railroad employees
• -  Railroad handcars
• -  Railroad locomotives
• -  Railroads
• -  Rivers

Notes

• -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph ; 27 x 21 centimeters.
• -  Original resource at: National Library of China.
• -  Content in Chinese.
• -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
• -  Title revised per Asian Division.--cc28 2023-01-06

Medium

• 1 online resource.

Source Collection

• Photographs of the Jing-Zhang Railway Construction

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.14668

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2021668934

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• https://lccn.loc.gov/2021668934

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