Chinese child, Emperor PU-YI – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Chinese child, Emperor PU-YI in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chinese child, Emperor PU-YI
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The title identifies the subject as Puyi, the boy placed on the Chinese throne in 1908 at about age two as the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, though the label comes from Bain News Service data that has not been verified. His accession followed the deaths of the Guangxu Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi, and he abdicated in 1912 as the Qing court gave up power during the revolution. Bain News Service was a New York photo agency whose glass negatives were made for distribution to newspapers, so the picture likely served as news imagery of the period. The record gives no date, so the exact year it was made is unknown.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,197 × 5,816 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-7585 |
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