Photography South Entrance to the Forbidden City – Donghua Inner Gate
Photography South Entrance to the Forbidden City – Donghua Inner Gate
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A black-and-white photograph: panoramic view of the city gates on the inner wall that separated the Forbidden City of Zhonghuamen from the Inner City (Neicheng 内城). The gate is called Donghua (Donghuamen 東華門). A crowd of people passes through the gate.
The photograph is the 271st 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 Süd-Zugang (Tung-Hua-Men) der Verb. Stadt (früher). (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.4 cm, width: 8.5 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
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