Inner City (Tartar City) city wall and canal, viewed from Zhengyangmen, Beijing

Collection

Identifier

BL-n049

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Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n049. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '24: High angle view of roofs, city walls and canal'. Photograph from an album, with captioning and an arrow in ink, on the left of the print: 'pagoda' (indicating the Tianningsi pagoda on the horizon on the left side of the photograph). Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. View of the Tartar City (Inner City) wall, from Zhengyangmen, looking westwards towards Xuanwumen. In the foreground are some houses. The Hankow Station and Peking-Hankow railway line was built between the canal and the city wall. In the far distance on the left is Tianningsi pagoda. See NA01-64.

Caption in album or on mount

pagoda

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1900

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph