print email comment close Displaying the Forbidden: Images of China's Imperial Palaces URL: http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/object_genres/photographers/siren/index.html Description: A collection of over 200 photographs of "the Forbidden City [of Beijing, China] and environs, especially the New Summer Palace of the Empress Dowager," taken by Osvald Siren in the early 1920s. Searchable, and browsable by topic (architecture, landscape, sculpture, city, people, trees). Includes historical background of the Forbidden City, information on Siren, and a bibliography. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. Author: MacDevitt, James Publisher: University of California, Riverside Dublin Core Material Type: Collection, Dataset, Image Library of Congress Subject Headings: Art historians Beijing (China) Palaces -- China People Sirén, Osvald, 1879- LII Database Information: Record 2776 created by Tom McGibney on 12/08/2002 Last modification on 06/11/2006 Published: 06/11/2006   California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/2776