Fortified villages inhabited, partly abandoned, or abandoned through drought or bandit extermination

ca. 1940

Ground and Aerial Views of China / J. P. Koster

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Ground and aerial views of China photographed about 1940 by J. P. Koster when he was a pilot on routes from Peking to Paotow, Ninghsia, Lanchow, Sining, Sian, Chengchow to Shanghai and to Hankow, Changsha, Canton, and Sian to Chengtu, Kunming.

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