Stone gate on Silk Road, Gansu, China, 1936

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Title: Stone gate on Silk Road, Gansu, China, 1936
Creator: Pickens, Claude L., 1900-1985
Published / Created: 1936
Publication Place: Kansu, China, Asia
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Do not divide the Moslems and Chinese is the slogan on this gate of Hao Tien, Kansu. Through this gate most of the traffic between China proper and the Northwest, including Sinkiang, must pass. The old Silk Road between Cathay and Stamboul passed through and halted while it got strength to climb the famous Liu P'an Mountians ahead.
Extent: 8 x 11.5 cm.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Collection / Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1834-2002
Container / Volume: Box 333 | Folder 1

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