Photography Funeral Procession of the Empress Longyu
Photography Funeral Procession of the Empress Longyu
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A black-and-white photograph showing the funeral procession and the loading of the coffin of the Dowager Empress Longyu (reigned 1908–1912) onto a train. A mourning ceremony in 1913 takes place at a railway station in Beijing.
The photograph is the 431st 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 Leichenzug der Kaiserin Yung-Lu: Verladen der Sarges. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.6 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: blue discolouration of black colour
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