Photography American Barricade on a Legation Street in Beijing
Photography American Barricade on a Legation Street in Beijing
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A black-and-white photograph showing an American barricade in Beijing’s Legation Quarter (Dongjiaominxiang 東交民巷).
The photograph is the 78th of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Fremde Truppen am Marsche. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 10.8 cm, width: 8.4 cm
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: well preserved, trimmed left- and right-hand edges
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