Views of my Tour - Peking.

£1,600 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Includes many images of the Forbidden City, the temples, and other well-known tourist sites in and around Peking. The most interesting photographs show human activities and Chinese customs such as a wedding procession, funerals, camel caravans, a traditional stone mill, lumber sawing, a water wheel-barrow, a persimmon seller, a cobbler, a fortune teller etc. This album was produced by the ‘Peking Art Studio’ a professional Chinese studio catering to foreign visitors and doing wholesale business with the leading hotels.

• Year: 1920

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