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Rare early photographs of Peking

posted by Jason Kottke   Nov 12, 2015

Photographer Thomas Child took these images of Peking (now known as Beijing) in the 1870s and 1880s. This is of a Buddhist lama and his student:

Thomas Child

And this one shows travelers on the Silk Road...according to Child, the camels "carry coal and lime into the City from the Western Hills, and merchandise between Peking and Mongolia":

Thomas Child

And this one is the Great Wall:

Thomas Child