Carriage on the Jemulpo-Seoul railway

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

travelphoto

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Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.21.1.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
ca. 1900
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting:
Carriage on the Jemulpo-Seoul railway.
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: height: 10 cm
width: 14 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Unknown photographer. Photograph purchased by Dezső Bozóky. The railway between Jemulpo and Seoul was built in 1899. “Lavishly comfortable, open American bogie cars run on this very broadgauge railway, which are at least three metres tall, and have very large windows and comfortable armchairs” (Bozóky 1911, I. 499).

Other publication: Bozóky Dezső: Két év Keletázsiában. Útirajzok. I-II. kötet. China és Korea, Japán. (동아시아에서의 2년. 여행기 I.-II. 권, 중국과 한국, 일본) Nagyvárad, the author's edition, 1911.