The Wild East - Old photos of Kalgan

[sukhe_bator]

Street scenes from Kalgan, mod. Zhangjiakou, in Hebei Province of North China. Zhangjiakou has been nicknamed "Beijing's Northern Door" due to its strategic location. End of the line (literally) for Chinese railways and last stop before the trek across the Gobi into Mongolia




From an extensive collection taken by Harrison Brown during his travels in China from 1936 to 1937. They are available in the Harrison Brown Collection in the Special Collections department at the Simon Fraser University Library. An indispensible resource for BoB/Pulp modellers out there
www.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/edocs/HarrisonBrown?Fu...

[Prof.Witchheimer]

very inspiring pics! but the link doesn't work.

[Wirelizard]

This link goes to the Photo collection:

http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/HarrisonBrown?Function=Browse&CategoryID=2

Nice find, local to me too - SFU is just over the strait in Vancouver.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

what a nice gun boat!

[Svennn]

Absolutely delightfull - thats just wasted an hour of works time and I am only about half way through.

[sukhe_bator]

Told you it was a fascinating collection...!

[HerbyF]

Great photos. Now i am going to have to start building some stuff to go with all my chinese armies.

[odd duck]

Thank you that's a great site I'll be spending some time there!

[Mosstrooper]

Excellant !!

[Ignatieff]

Just as I think I'm getting to the end of my BoB adventures, another door opens.  Excellent!!!

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Just as I think I'm getting to the end of my BoB adventures

For heaven's sake!