History Thru The Lens

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My interests in history and photography come together in this photoblog. Featured in this blog are historical pictures such as the above photo of the RMS Olympic and her sister ship the RMS Titanic, which would prove to be the last one of them together side by side. Hopefully all who visit will enjoy it and recommend the site to their friends.

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

City Gate

Kalgan, a gate to the Great Wall of China-1899

In his memoirs about a family trip to China in 1899, Herbert Hoover recalls his Christmas Eve stop in the town of Kalgan. While there, he met an American medical team doing missionary work. He describes the Christmas dinner he had there as a 'good one, but the fine American faces were a better tonic'.

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