Street in Seoul

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

travelphoto

Archive

Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.25.1.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
September 1905
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting:
Street in Seoul.
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: height: 10.2 cm
width: 14.2 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Unknown photographer. Photograph purchased by Dezső Bozóky. A street decorated with Korean and American flags, in honour of American guests (probably Alice Roosevelt and her entourage), photographed from a bridge with a collapsed pavement and no railing (Salgoji Bridge?). People pass their time outside the shops that line the street, several children in the centre watch the photographer in action.