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[Peking, China]: Forbidden City walls – Historic Reproduction

[Peking, China]: Forbidden City walls, c1932. — historic photograph
[Peking, China]: Forbidden City walls, c1932.. 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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Step back in time with [Peking, China]: Forbidden City walls, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Peking, China]: Forbidden City walls

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Few sights in old Peking were as imposing as the high red walls that enclosed the Forbidden City, the palace complex built in the early 1400s for the Ming emperors and later home to the Qing court. This c1932 print, credited to the White Brothers photographic firm, shows the palace's outer defenses at a time when the city was known as Peiping, after the Nationalist government moved the capital to Nanjing. The imperial household had left the palace only in 1924, and it opened as a public museum in 1925, so the photograph captures a site in transition.

Created / publishedc1932.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by White Brothers. No. H-4. No. copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Architecture; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145327

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