Old photos of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in the 1910s

The photographer of this group is Luther· Then Ed. Luther Knight (1879-1913), born in Iowa, studied at Northwestern University in Illinois and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, and taught at two American universities. In June 1910, he signed a contract with the Sichuan Higher School of the Qing Dynasty to assist education. In August of that year, he arrived in China from the United States through Japan. Later, he went west from Shanghai along the Yangtze River and arrived in Chengdu in October to teach mathematics, chemistry and geology in Sichuan Higher School

In the process of going upstream along the Yangtze River, he recorded the beautiful scenery of the Three Gorges when the shooting conditions were not ideal. These photos were included in “Yangtze Scenery”, which was published in 1926 and limited to 1000 copies. It published 12 original silver salt photos painted by hand and 38 concave print photos, including Qingtan, Kui Mansion, Wu Gorge, Redong Beach, Huangling Temple, Wenfeng Mountain, Wanxian County, Bellows Gorge, Dengying Gorge, Niugan Mafei Gorge, Zhangfei Temple, Chongqing and other Yangtze River scenes, as well as steamboats, ferries The tracker and the red boat reflected the inland river shipping conditions at that time

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从新滩顺流而下

云阳滩下游

默默与长江为伴的万县

黄猫峡

乘风逆流而上

令人望而生畏的峡口

行至泄滩

舟行穿过牛肝马肺峡

新滩，位于牛肝马肺峡和米仓峡之间

以下照片来自《西洋镜：一个英国风光摄影大师镜头下的中国》

巫峡

灯影峡

红船（长江救生船）

礁石林立的牛肝马肺峡峡口

瞿塘峡

顺流而下

万县古桥

泄滩

兴隆滩纤夫

重庆