Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908; an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham; through Peking with a camera.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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077346090X

Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908; an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham; through Peking with a camera.

Pearce, Nick.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2005

192 pages

$109.95

Hardcover

Studies in photographic arts; v.6

TR102

The fortuitous discovery of a box of old photographs stored in the Oriental Museum at the University of...

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