Visitors at the Summer Palace [exterior], Peking, China – Antique Print
![Visitors at the Summer Palace [exterior], Peking, China, c1902. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d0/d068a0ead4e9-L.webp)
(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 Visitors at the Summer Palace [exterior], Peking, China, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Visitors at the Summer Palace [exterior], Peking, China
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The Summer Palace, an imperial retreat in the hills northwest of Peking, is the subject of this stereograph, and the title's mention of visitors points to people gathering at its grounds. British and French forces had damaged the site in 1860, and it suffered again during the 1900 Boxer upheaval, so by the time this card was made around 1902 it bore the marks of foreign intervention. C.H. Graves issued the card as one of many China views made for the parlor stereoscope, which gave viewers a sense of depth in distant scenes. Through the viewer, the two nearly identical images merge into one three-dimensional picture.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo by C.H. Graves. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Markets; Photog. I.; China--MIsc.--[1902]; China; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,366 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136204 |
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