[BEIJING.]
[Cover title:] ‘The most interesting views of Peiping’.
[c. 1900–1920.]
Long thin oblong album, with 120 gelatin silver prints c. 70 x 110 mm, mounted with corner guards two to a page on grey blue paper, with printed numbered captions in English below; occasional surface wear but the prints generally in very good condition; contemporary textured black cloth album, cover titled in gilt, double punched at left edge and secured with black cord.
A very good example of a commercial souvenir album of Beijing and the Great Wall of China.
Concentrating on historic sites and archaeological detail, the album features the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City, the Winter Palace, the Summer Palace, the Green Cloud Temple, the Jade Fountain, the Thirteen Stories Pagoda, the Lama Temple, the Ming Tombs and many more. Images 93–98 are of the Great Wall, and the final twenty-two are of street scenes, processions, camel trains, fortune tellers, and their ilk.
Rare; OCLC records an example at Ohio State University.
