Yunnan (China), construction of small office building at Yankai air base
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- Created Date
- between 1943 and 1945
- Description
Yunnan Province, China 1943 - 1945
The building under construction was made of wood and mud brick. It was a small office building at the airbase of Yankai. A cinder like base was poured and upright poles set into it. The bricks then surrounded the poles. Wooden window frames were also set in place. Window panes were of oiled paper. Ordinarily baked tiles were used, but with roofing material available the Chinese opted for roofing paper. The building exterior will be carefully finished and very smooth looking. The interior will have an elevated wood floor with airspace between the ground and floor. There was no concrete floor or base, so large rats had no problem gnawing through the wood floor and building base. This was a problem.
Grayscale
Box 7
- Creator
Krawczyk, Bert A
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- 1943-1945 Bert Krawczyk Photos of China during World War II;
Bert A. Krawczyk Collection
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East
NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive - Type
- image
- Format
- Nitrate negatives
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Krawczyk, Bert A. Yunnan (China), construction of small office building at Yankai air base. between 1943 and 1945. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsphoto/id/7524. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Krawczyk, Bert A, (between 1943 and 1945) Yunnan (China), construction of small office building at Yankai air base. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsphoto/id/7524
- MLA citation style
- Krawczyk, Bert A. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsphoto/id/7524>.