[Seoul from a distance]
- Title:
- [Seoul from a distance]
- Collection:
- Willard D. Straight in Korea
- Date:
- ca. 1904
- Location:
- Myongdong Songdang, Seoul, South Korea
- Country:
- South Korea
United States - ID Number:
- 1260.60.09.35.02
- Collection Number:
- 1260
- File Name:
- 1260.60.09.35.02.tif
- Work Type:
- Photographs
- Subject:
- Military personnel
Japanese
Cathedrals
Jorge Coste - Measurement:
- 9.8 x 13.5 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Lots of Japanese soldiers march into Seoul and some civilians (clad in Japanese kimono) are seen in front of the picture. It depicts a very significant occasion. The building at the background is identified as 'Myongdong Songdang' ( Myongdong Cathedral). The stone cathedral, designed by French priest Jorge Coste in 1892, was built in 1898. Myongdong Cathedral is where Kim Bum-woo, a Chinese interpreter, organized Catholic meetings in the 1780s with Lee Seung-hun, the first Korean baptized Catholic. In the underground section of the church are buried foreign and Korean priests who died in the persecution of Catholics by the Chosun Kingdom during the 1800s. Source for the Cathedral: http://www.hankooki.com/kt_culture/200206/t2002061516554346110.htm (viewed May 31, 2003)
- Cite As:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers, #1260. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Willard Dickerman Straight papers
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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