'Little' Jinshan temple (金山塔寺), Wulong River (乌龙江), Fuzhou

'Little' Jinshan temple (金山塔寺), Wulong River (乌龙江), Fuzhou

Collection

Drew, Edward Bangs

Identifier

Hv36-47

Notes

Historical Photographs of China album reference: Hv36. Views in China. An album presented by Edward Bangs Drew to his wife Anna Davis Drew. Provenance: Purchased from Lucy Drew, 1949. Access to original photographs and albums in the Edward Bangs Drew Collection is restricted. Photographs and images from the collection may be reproduced only with written permission. Contact the Harvard-Yenching Library for permissions and fees. The 'Little Jin Shan' (金山塔寺) is a pagoda and temple on a small island located in the middle of the Wulong River (乌龙江), which is a branch of the Min River (闽江), near the village of Hongtong (洪塘村) in the western suburb of the city of Fuzhou (福洲) in Fujian Province (福建). It resembles the famous Jin Shan (Gold Mountain or Golden Hill) Temple (金山寺) in in Jiangsu Province. See Fr01-002. See also http://www.fzcuo.com/index.php?doc-view-361.html.

Caption in album or on mount

Small island with pavilion. Min Riv[er] back of Nantai i[slan]d Foochow

Location

Fuzhou

Estimated Date

1876 or 1877

Photographer

Tung Hing

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Harvard-Yenching Library, USA