[Loading a Wostwag Company truck]
- 4552955/274.
- Eitem
- 1935.
Two men, one of them Anatoli Petrewschtchew, securing a load on top of one of the Wostwag Company wagons.
[Loading a Wostwag Company truck]
Two men, one of them Anatoli Petrewschtchew, securing a load on top of one of the Wostwag Company wagons.
The Great Wall of China seen running along a distant hilltop. In the foreground of the photo is a railway track. This suggests that the photo was taken on his train ride from Peking to Kalgan (now Zhangjiakou) on July 11th 1935.
A blurred landscape, as though taken from a moving train or car. 4552955/277 is a variant of this.
Landscape wth blurred foreground, as though taken from a moving train or car. In the middle distance are cultivated fields and mountains on the far horizon.
Arid landscape with cliffs on the left hand side of the photo and a featureless plain on the right. There is some sparse vegetation on the cliff tops otherwise the landscape appears very dry. There are some channels that appear to have been made by water, possibly flash floods.
A scattered camp in which two two-wheeled carts, a tethered camel with a calf and goats can be seen.
Mongolian princes at the Great Festival of the Princes.
Gareth Vaughan Jones and Dr Muller watching the target in an archery contest.
[Three Mongolian men in traditional costume]
Three Mongolian men in a variety of traditional clothing posing for the camera.
A young boy with shaven head wearing monks robes and smiling at the camera.
Gareth Vaughan Jones and two boy monks. He is smiling and holding a hat in his right hand.
A mixed group including monks and Mongolian horsemen chatting in front of a row of single storey buildings.
A man seated on a mat engrossed in sewing a traditional and highly ornamental garment.
A number of men attempting to pull a protective cover over a motor car. Behind them are an array of buildings, some whitewashed.
A none too prosperous cluster of houses seen from neighbouring railway tracks. Believed to be Kalgan.
Kalgan : The headquarters of the Wostwag Company, a German firm that traded with the Mongols.
A row of single storey warehouses and sheds with two lorries and piles of crates and barrels in front of them.
A large furry dog standing next to a wall.
A Camel herder leading a camel towards the horizon, the rest following.
Two men in western clothes standing a respectful distance from, and looking at, an archery target.
A large dog sniffing in the grass, its hindquarters blurred by movement. In the background can be seen a yurt and two carts.