Caravan on Rails
Photograph
Caravan on Rails
Mongolia: Recognition at Last?
1959
Gelatin silver print, printed July 1961
Image: 6 × 9 5/16 in. (15.3 × 23.6 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0023
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, C: (Mongolia) 7/61 15) CARAVAN ON RAILS replaces the camel caravan of \ Marco Polo's days to cross the great Gobi Desert from Red \ China to Ulan Bator, capital of Outer Mongolia. A recent \ modernization, it also links the country with Russia. \ Credit: CARTIER-BRESSON © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
