Photography Street Scene After a Night of Horror
Photography Street Scene After a Night of Horror
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A black-and-white photograph showing a street scene after the Night of Terror in Beijing. The street is covered with bodies, all facing the ground, hands tied behind their backs. Pedestrians walk by, some of whom cannot take their eyes off the corpses. The Night of Terror was one of the clashes between the Nationalist revolutionaries and the Beijing military leadership between February and March 1912.
The photograph is the 88th 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 Strassenbild nach der Schreckensnacht. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 8.5 cm, width: 8.8 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, trimmer top and bottom edges
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