Some of Earliest Photos Ever of 'Peking'

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(1) Ishaan Tharoor, These Are Some of the Earliest Photos Ever Taken of China’s Capital. Washington Post, Nov 11, 2015 (photo gallery of ten photos).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/n ... -of-chinas-capital/

Note:
(a) photo 2: Jade-Belt Bridge (Summer Palace) "玉带桥位于北京颐和园昆明湖长堤上，建于清乾隆年间"

(b) photo 3:
(i) Great Pure Gate Chen’Mien  正阳门  
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/正阳门
(俗称前门，原名丽正门; "明成祖朱棣迁都北京，永乐十七年（1419年）将元大都南城垣向南移建800米，原来北京城墙正中的丽正门迁建到今正阳门的位置，仍旧称为丽正门。正统元年（1436年）改称正阳门")
(A) Books before pinyin often used this Romanization: Ch’ien-men.
(B) The top photo in this Wiki page does not show the three arches in this angle.
(ii) Meridian Gate  午门

(c) photo 6: Temple of Azure Clouds  碧云寺
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Azure_Clouds
(孙中山纪念堂)
(d) "The Marble Boat, or the Boat of Purity and Ease, shows damage from the Second Opium War."  石舫


(2) Qing Dynasty Peking: Thomas Child's Photography 京華清影－托馬斯•查爾德攝影展. Nov 10-15, 2015. London: China Exchange 中国站.
http://chinaexchange.uk/whats-on ... -childs-photography
("Free Admission. An exhibition of original Thomas Child photographs of Peking (Beijing) from the 1870s and 1880s")