Pailou gate, Ming Tombs

Title : Pailou gate, Ming Tombs

Topic : Warren Swire collection

Location : Beijing

Date (start) : 1911

Estimated dates : 1911-1912

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Negative

Caption on support : Album cover: ‘1911-1912 E’, ‘China Miscellaneous Nos 38-96 Siberia & South 33 River 30 Shanghai Coast & Canton 13 [total] 127’. Album index: Folio (Sleeve) 51, one negative: Pailou at Ming Tombs

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: sw16-018. Khaki cloth Kodak Negative Album, 12 cm x 16 cm. 76 negatives (sized 92mm x 147mm). G.W. Swire wrote on the cover of the album: Nos 38-96 1911-1912 China Miscellaneous: Siberia & South 33, River 30, Shanghai Coast & Canton 13. The album was later labelled P2/X on the back cover. This magnificent marble pailou, erected in 1541, is considered by many to be the most beautiful pailou in all of China.

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