Image No. cn00240

Postcard Data

Size: 139x89mm
Caption: Peking.

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Publisher's Reference: 387

Printing Technique: Phototype
Color Nature: Mechanical Color

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Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Creation: -1902 (Certain)
Creation Place: (Certain)

Topic: Qianmen after the 1900 Siege

Action: Wide street with 5-arch pailou, with on the sides shops with ornate fronts, passenger carts and pedestrians. At the rear, city wall and gate, the latter with top part missing. Heavy traffic in the gateway.

Image Particulars: Qian gate was badly damaged during the Siege of the Legations of July-August 1900.