Court staff on paddle steamer approaching the Xiuyi Bridge (绣漪桥), Summer Palace (颐和园), Beijing (北京)

Court staff on paddle steamer approaching the Xiuyi Bridge (绣漪桥), Summer Palace (颐和园), Beijing (北京)

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-s094. Xiuyi Bridge or Bridge of Embroidered Ripples (绣漪桥) is near the south Ruyi gate to Kunming Lake, New Summer Palace, Yiheyuan, Peking (Beijing). Paddleboat photographed from a towed boat during a (diplomatic) audience with the Empress Dowager. The caption on the back of this modern print was written by the Billie Love Historical Collection.

Caption on photograph

THE SUMMER PALACE. TAKEN AT AN AUDIENCE, 1904

Location

Beijing

Date

1904

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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