Photography Park by Tiananmen Square
A black-and-white photograph showing the wooden pavilion in the central park by Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang 天安門廣場).
The photograph is the 447th 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 Aus dem Central-park bei Tien-Nan-Men. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 7.8 cm, width: 8.7 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: blue discolouration of black colour
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