Image No. cn00310

Postcard Data

Size: 138x89mm
Caption: Peking. Marmor-Schiff im Sommer Palast. /Marble boat in Summer Palace.

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Printing Technique: Phototype
Color Nature: B&W

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Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Creation Place: (Certain)

Topic: Marble Junk at the Yiheyuan Summer Palace, Beijing

Action: Two-storey marble pavilion with a junk-shaped base in water. Adjacent buildings are built on piles.

Image Particulars: The Dowager Empress Cixi started in the 1880s a rebuilding program of the area, which became known as the new Summer Palace. The junk shell is from an earlier period.