[BEIJING.]
Album of Beijing and environs.
[1920s.]
120 gelatin silver prints, c. 58 x 102 mm (2¼ x 4 inches), each with numbered typescript caption pasted below, held by corner in blue album pages; bound in dark grey cloth-covered boards (115 x 300 mm), tied with black cord.
A meticulously presented and captioned series of views, by a tourist or resident in Beijing (then Peking) with a thorough approach to recording their experience of the city and environs.
The series is neatly organised, covering subjects in distinct parts. The album comprises photographs on the following locations or themes: Temple of Heaven and Ancestral Shrine Tablet [15]; Forbidden City [17]; Winter Palace [10]; Summer Palace [18]; various temples [20]; Ming Tombs [12]; Great Wall [6]; and observations of people, ceremonies and trades in Peking [22].
