Interior of Throne Room, Forbidden City, Peking, China – Antique Print
(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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A window into the past: Interior of Throne Room, Forbidden City, Peking, China, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Interior of Throne Room, Forbidden City, Peking, China
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The Forbidden City's Hall of Supreme Harmony, the throne room of the Qing emperors, is the subject here, shown as a stereograph meant to be viewed through a hand-held lens device. Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania, issued this card around 1900, when stereo views of distant places were a popular parlor entertainment. The imperial palace in Peking had been closed to most outsiders for centuries, so cards like this offered many American viewers their only glimpse of its interiors. The paired images give the room a sense of depth that a flat photograph cannot, and the gilded throne and dragon motifs are worth studying closely.
| Created / published | Meadville, Pa. : Keystone View Company, c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 12006. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,337 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119911 |
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