Street food kitchen outside Yongdingmen, Beijing

Street food kitchen outside Yongdingmen, Beijing

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bk04-41. Source: 'The Pageant of Peking' by Donald Mennie (A.S.Watson and Co., Shanghai, 1920).  The gate-tower of Yongdingmen (Gate of Eternal Stability), is the central gate of the southern wall of Peking's Outer City.  It was the starting point of the major north-south axis of the city.

Caption in album or on mount

XLI. THE HOUR OF REST

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1915-1920

Photographer

Mennie, Donald

Material

Book

Media

Black and white photograph

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