Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bk04-33. Source: 'The Pageant of Peking' by Donald Mennie (A.S.Watson and Co., Shanghai, 1920). The Zhengyangmen (Qianmen; Ch'ien Mên) gate tower - the only surviving gate tower of the original sixteen that once guarded Peking (Beijing).

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XXXIII. THE CH'IEN MÊN

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1915-1920

Tags

• wall
• transportation
• clothing
• architecture
• heritage
• hat
• rickshaw
• street
• Beijing
• cart
• fortification
• people
• Mennie

Photographer

Mennie, Donald

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

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