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[Temple of Heaven, Peking, China] – Antique Wall Art

[Temple of Heaven, Peking, China], [between ca. 1880 and 1923] — historic photograph
[Temple of Heaven, Peking, China], [between ca. 1880 and 1923]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few sites in Peking carried more ceremonial weight than the Temple of Heaven, where Ming and Qing emperors came each year to pray for good harvests. Built in the early 1400s under the Yongle emperor, the complex is best known for its circular Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, a building with tiered roofs set on a marble terrace. This view comes from the Frank and Frances Carpenter collection, whose travel photographs record China in the decades around 1900 and show the temple grounds as foreign visitors of that era would have seen them.

Created / published[between ca. 1880 and 1923]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1930.
NotesFrank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsPagodas--China--Beijing--1880-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193503

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