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Image No. cn00337



Haupt-Yamen in Tsingtau [Principal yamen in Qingdao]


Haupt-Yamen in Tsingtau [Principal yamen in Qingdao]

Postcard Data

Size: 140x90mm
Caption: Haupt-Yamen in Tsingtau [Principal yamen in Qingdao]

Publisher:
Publisher's Reference: D.R.G.M. No. 10.

Stamp: (Removed)

Printing Technique: Phototype
Color Nature: B&W
Postcard Particulars: Part of a set, first issued in 1898 to celebrate the acquisition of Qingdao as a German colony and reprinted numerous times

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Image Data

Image Nature: Photograph
Creation: 1898-1898 (Assumed)
Creation Place: (Certain)

Topic: View of main yamen in Qingdao

Action: Seen from above, the yamen is composed of numerous official and private buildings and gardens, enclosed within a wall. High posts mark its entrance. A number of Chinese boats are in the harbor. Three men, including a German officer, pose on the foreground.

Image Particulars: The scenery is fully Chinese, meaning that that this is an early stage of the German colonization which started in 1898.


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