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21 images from works
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.
  • A group of people eating a meal, seated behind a small table, in front of a painted screen.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • Two men sawing a baulk of timber in a woodyard, in Korea.
  • A line of shops beside a dusty street, with telegraph poles overhead, in Korea.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
  • A description of the empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, together with the kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet. Containing the geography and history (natural as well as civil) of those countries ... / from the French of P.J.B. DuHalde, Jesuit, with notes geographical, historical and critical and other improvements, particularly in the maps by the translator.
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Works from the collections

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    Things Korean : a collection of sketches and anecdotes, missionary and diplomatic / by Horace N. Allen.

    Allen, Horace Newton, 1858-1932. | Date: [1908], ©1908
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    A cross-section of the HIV virus with the characteristic outer protrusions; with 3 red arrows pointing to the earth in orbit and the word 'AIDS' below; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation Inc. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995] | Reference: 677749i
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    The mystery and madness of... weird war tales. No. 81, [November , 1979].

    | Date: 1979
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    Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 541867i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
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    Songs of the shaman : the ritual chants of the Korean mudang / Boudewijn Walraven.

    Walraven, Boudewijn, 1947- | Date: 1994
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Ethnology
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History, 20th Century
China
Korean War
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