Photography Outer Street in Front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace
Photography Outer Street in Front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace
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A black-and-white photograph showing the outer street in front of Tiananmen Gate (Tiananmen 天安門). On the right side are stone towers with lions and a lion statue.
The photograph is the 278th 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 Ausserstrasse vor Tien-Nan-Men. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.3 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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