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Area 11--Manchuria--Hsin-Ching (Hsinking)--(Spec. Mun.)--Railway station. S.M.R. Line – Vintage Print

Area 11--Manchuria--Hsin-Ching (Hsinking)--(Spec. Mun.)--Railway station. S.M.R. Line, 1933 — historic photograph
Area 11--Manchuria--Hsin-Ching (Hsinking)--(Spec. Mun.)--Railway station. S.M.R. Line, 1933. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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Area 11--Manchuria--Hsin-Ching (Hsinking)--(Spec. Mun.)--Railway station. S.M.R. Line comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few stations in northeast China changed as much in the early 1930s as the one at Hsinking, the name given to Changchun after Japan set up the state of Manchukuo in 1932. The South Manchuria Railway, which Japan had taken over from Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, ran its line through the city, making the depot a key link between the new capital and the wider rail network. A 1933 print like this one records a building tied to a newly declared state, and it is useful for anyone studying how railways carried both goods and political control across the region.

Created / published1933
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesN43.54 - E 125.20. OSS 761184. No. 63571.
SubjectsRailroad stations--China--Changchun (Jilin Sheng)--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan835 × 580 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-197828

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