Memorial column on the hills around Seoul

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

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Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.25.4.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1908
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting: Memorial column on the mountains surrounding Seoul
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver contact print
Dimensions: height: 14.2 cm
width: 10.2 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. A hilltop guarded by Japanese soldiers, with a machine gun post behind a barrier. There are soldiers behind the barrier and in the shade of the pine trees, and there is a kimono-wearing Japanese woman near the memorial. In the valley, the tall building of Deoksu-gung Palace can be seen, surrounded by roofs.