The Main Street of Seoul

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

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Accession Nr.: F.2004.659.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1908
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Materials/Techniques: hand-coloured glass slide
Dimensions: height: 8 cm
width: 8 cm
Dezső Bozóky hand-coloured glass diapositive. Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. Related item: A.4760.2.23.3. (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)