China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and The province of Ningsia has two distinct types of architecture among its many mosques. Here is a good example of the curved roof minaret of one near Kinkihsien. There is a much sharper curve to the roof here than one finds in Eastern China.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Box 333 | Folder 1
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and 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.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Box 333 | Folder 1
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Water gate of the city of Kaolan (Lanchow) Kansu, looking up the Yellow river. The American-built iron bridge in the background was carried on the backs of camels from Tientsin. A goat skin raft is tied to the bank in the middle foreground.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Box 333 | Folder 1
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Three of the more than eighty student ahungs (mullahs) from all over the Northwest and even from the coastal provinces who study at this main mosque of Sining. The round caps immediately distinguish a Moslem from a Chinese, or as is commonly said, the Hsiao Chiao from the Ta Chiao."
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Box 333 | Folder 2
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and This tomb is not in Egypt but in Yangchow, Kiangsu, the city which Marco Polo governed for Kublai Khan. Pu Ha Tin, one of the early missionaries of Islam to China is buried here. It is a place of sacred pilgrimage along the grand Canal.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Chang Chia Chuan, East Kansu, the stronghold of Islam in South Eastern Kansu and headquarters of one branch of the Djahariah Order. Fourteen mosques minister to the needs of the people. On market day, which occurs every second day, people from miles around make the streets almost impassible, yet women are seldom seen at these times.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Box 333 | Folder 1
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Hsuan Hua Kang above Chang Chia Chuan on the hillside to the north. Here in the large mausoleum rests the head of Ma Hua-lung, one of the leaders of the rebellion of 1862-1876. His spiritual descendents, including Ma Yuan-chang, his son-in-law, are buried here close by.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Box 333 | Folder 1
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Water Wheels on the upper Yellow River, above Kaolan. The man standing in the middle background by the upright post is six feet two inches. Water is carried to the top in long rectangular boxes fastened to the circumference of the wheel. Many of these wheels are owned by Moslem villages.