Views of my Tour - Peking.

UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER (1920s].)

£1600.00 

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120 original silver prints with printed English captions. Slim oblong folio (29.5x12cm). Original black cloth with brown paper dust-wrapper and printed title label to front cover, very good condition. Peking, [Peking Art Studio], n.d. [ca.

Includes many images of the Forbidden City, the temples, and other well-known tourist sites in and around Peking. The most interesting photographs show human activities and Chinese customs such as a wedding procession, funerals, camel caravans, a traditional stone mill, lumber sawing, a water wheel-barrow, a persimmon seller, a cobbler, a fortune teller etc. This album was produced by the 'Peking Art Studio' a professional Chinese studio catering to foreign visitors and doing wholesale business with the leading hotels.

Stock Code: 211816

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