Railway station on the Lao-Kay-Kumming railway, Yunnan, S.W. China – Vintage Print
![Railway station on the Lao-Kay-Kumming railway, Yunnan, S.W. China, [between 1930 and 1940?] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9e/9e3153956a4f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Railway station on the Lao-Kay-Kumming railway, Yunnan, S.W. China comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Railway station on the Lao-Kay-Kumming railway, Yunnan, S.W. China
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A station on the Yunnan section of the Lao Kay to Kunming railway is the focus here. The line ran from the provincial capital of Kunming south to the Vietnamese border at Lao Cai, and French interests built it in the first decade of the 1900s to link southwest China with French Indochina. The date of 1930 to 1940 is a tentative estimate from an unverified caption card, so the photograph may fall somewhat earlier or later. It offers a glimpse of the railway's buildings and surroundings in the years when the line was an important trade route.
| Created / published | [between 1930 and 1940?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; R.R. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 967 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155136 |
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