'The Jade River' canal, Legation Quarter, Peking

Collection

Identifier

BL-n075

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Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n075. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '37: Moat outside legation area'. Photograph from an album, with unreadable captioning below and around the photograph, in ink. Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. The large European style building on the left, is the First Secretary's house in the British Legation. The 'Jade River Canal' is now Zhengyi Lu. See also BL-n012 and BL-n085.

Caption in album or on mount

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1899

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph