1861年,曾国藩在安徽省会安庆创建了中国第一家军工企业——安庆内军械所,安庆成为中国近代工业的摇篮。晚清民国时期,安庆城东门内先后开办了火药局、银元局、造币厂、制造局,它们前后相继,传承发展,这里官办工业延续数十年。如今,保留下了一栋晚清时期建造的二层洋楼,向人们诉说着安徽造币厂的百年沧桑。从一张老照片说起1911年,美国著名旅行家、地理学家威廉·埃德加·盖洛出版了《中国十八省府》一书,书中有一章专门介绍了安徽省府安庆,其中配有一幅照片(图1),画面中可以见 In 1861, Zeng Guofan created the first military industrial enterprise in China, Anqing Internal Armory, in An Hui, Anhui Province, and Anqing became the cradle of modern Chinese industry. Late Qing Dynasty Republic of China, Anqing City, the East Gate has opened a firepower bureau, silver dollar bureau, mint, manufacturing bureau, they have one after another, inheritance and development, where official industry lasted for decades. Today, the preservation of a two-story building built in the late Qing Dynasty, to tell people about the vicissitudes of Anhui Mint century. From an old photo Speaking 1911, William Edgar Gaye, a famous American traveler and geographer, published the book “China’s 18 Provincial Governments,” a chapter devoted to Anhui Anfu , Which is equipped with a photo (Figure 1), the picture can be seen