Loess erosion. Northwest of Liupan-shan mountains (at top of picture) between Sian and Lanchow. The white in the shadow of the canyon is snow and ice in the little stream. Village dwellings are partly caves.
Details
Title
Fortified villages inhabited, partly abandoned, or abandoned through drought or bandit extermination
Published
ca. 1940
Full Collection Name
Ground and Aerial Views of China / J. P. Koster
Type
Image
Archive
East Asian Library
Note
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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