MS 7151 Plan of Peking

Summary
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7151
Creators:
ANONYMOUS
Dates:
n.d
Languages:
Chinese
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Physical Description:
1 Page
114.5 cm x 61 cm
Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
The document is a street map that includes street names, names of public buildings and other structures (palace grounds, temples, city walls and gates), and other points of interest. The map has been annotated in pencil with English transliterations of names of city gates. The accession papers describe this as a "good specimen of popular Chinese cartography."
Administration
Custodial History
Donated to the Department of Anthroplogy in 1891 by William Woodville Rockhill. Transferred from the specimen collection to the National Anthropological Archives by Chang-su Houchins in February 1985.
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 7151
NAA INV 10000007
Translation of Title
Translation of Title
Map of the Capital City
Local Note
Local Note
Data and translations furnished by Chang-su Houchins, of the Department of Anthropology, NMNH.
Local Note
Black and white woodblock print on mulberry paper
Other Title
Other Title
Shoushan quantu
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 7151, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Keywords
Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Beijing (China) -- Maps Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chinese Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Repository Contact
National Anthropological Archives
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