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[Transporting ammunition by horse]

Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library

 

Title: [Transporting ammunition by horse]

 

Date: ca. 1904

 

Place: Asia: South Korea; Seoul

 

Type: Photographs

 

Description: 'Despite the declaration of neutrality by the Choson Government (Yi dynasty), Japanese troops began landing on Inchon city and marched into the capital, Seoul. They are shown here transporting ammunition through the Independence Gate.' This picture was published in the source below, and may not have been taken by Straight himself. Source: Source: Sajin uiro ponun tongnip undong (Independence Movement Through Pictures), 1996, v. 1, p. 51.

 

Inscription/Marks: No inscription.

 

Identifier: 1260.60.09.43.04

 

Persistent URI: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xnf

 

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Uploaded on November 11, 2009
Taken sometime in 1904