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Bridge built on boats over the Yongow branch of the Yung River, at Ningpo, China – Vintage Print

Bridge built on boats over the Yongow branch of the Yung River, at Ningpo, China, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1900. — stereograph
Bridge built on boats over the Yongow branch of the Yung River, at Ningpo, China, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1900.. Stereograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Here a pontoon bridge of boats is lashed together across the Yongow branch of the Yung River at Ningpo, the port city now called Ningbo in Zhejiang Province. Floating bridges like this were a practical answer to crossing wide, busy waterways where a fixed span was costly to build, and they could be opened to let cargo boats pass. Ningpo had been one of the treaty ports opened to foreign trade after 1842, which drew Western photographers and publishers to the city around 1900. Underwood & Underwood issued this view as a stereograph, so it was meant to be seen as a three-dimensional pair and sold for home parlor viewing.

Created / publishedNew York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1900.
GenreStereographs 1900.
NotesD20546 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsPontoon bridges--China--Ning-po shih--1900. City & town life--China--Ning-po shih--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 727 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-167845

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