The Main Street of Seoul [the Jongno]

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

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Accession Nr.:	A.4760.2.23.3.
Type:	photograph
Artist/Maker:	Dezső Bozóky (photo made by)
Date of production:	1908
Place of production:	Seoul, Korea
Acquisition:	collection of Dezső Bozóky

Materials/Techniques:	gelatin silver contact print, one half of stereo pair
Dimensions:	height: 6.5 cm width: 8.3 cm

The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. Related item: F.2004.659. (photo). “Running east-west, almost completely arrow-straight, a very broad street cuts through the city... The curious cars of the American-Korean tramway company run on this broad road” (Bozóky 1911, I. 505). 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.

place of production: Seoul, Jogno (종로)

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