This photo taken from a recently found album in Mar 2003 shows a picture of the Yuanmingyuan Palace shot by a foreign photographer.
Antique collector Wang Jinchang found the old photo album of the destroyed Yuanmingyuan Palace in an antique market.
A total of more than 170 photos in the album tells about the Yuanmingyuan Palace before and after its destruction by the British-French allied army in 1860. Those photos indicate the album may belong to an expert on the historical research of Yuanmingyuan who lost the matarial in the 1950s.
(Xinhua News Agency March 14, 2003)
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