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Shan-hai-kwan, eastern end of China's Great Wall - south from Liao Hsi Mts., to Pe-Chi-li Gulf – Antique Wall Art

Shan-hai-kwan, eastern end of China's Great Wall - south from Liao Hsi Mts., to Pe-Chi-li Gulf, c1904. — historic photograph
Shan-hai-kwan, eastern end of China's Great Wall - south from Liao Hsi Mts., to Pe-Chi-li Gulf, c1904.. 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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Shan-hai-kwan, eastern end of China's Great Wall - south from Liao Hsi Mts., to Pe-Chi-li Gulf comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Shan-hai-kwan, where the Great Wall meets the sea, is the detail that sets this stereograph apart from the many views of the wall's interior and mountain sections. The fortress sits at the eastern terminus of the wall, guarding the narrow pass between the Liao Hsi hills and the Gulf of Pe-Chi-li (the Bohai Gulf). Underwood & Underwood, the American firm that produced stereo cards for home parlor viewers, issued scenes like this one around 1904 for armchair travelers who would never see China in person. The card's caption data is unverified, so the exact vantage point and date should be treated with some caution.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; China--Shan-hai-kwan; China--Gt. Wall.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,454 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-142629

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