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Title	Great Buddha statue in main temple Ta-fo-szu in Chengde, formerly Jehol
Part of Set	Harrison Forman Collection - Tibet
Date of Photograph	Between 1932 and 1933
Photographer's Note	Tibet
Photographer	Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978
Description	'In the middle, towering up as far as the topmost roof, was the great Buddha, said to be over seventy-two feet high. It was of wood, glittering with gold and colours.' (Jehol: city of emperors). The city of Jehol is now known as Chengde and in 1956, Jehol province became part of Hebei province.
Source of Descriptive Information	Hedin, S. (1933). Jehol: city of emperors. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. (p. 82).; Chengde. (2013). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com/eb/article-276930
Subject TGM	Sculpture Religious articles Buddhas Buddhism
Continent	Asia
Country	China
State/Province	Hebei (province)
City/Place	Chengde
Type	Image
Original Collection	Harrison Forman Collection
Original Item Size	35 mm
Original Item Medium	Black-and-white negatives; Cellulose nitrate film
Original Item Location	Forman Nitrate Negatives, Box 10
Original Item ID	Roll 294
Provenance	Gift of Sandra Carlyle Forman, 1987
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	fr204599
Date Digitized	2007
Digital Collection	Tibet - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
Digital Format	Image/jpg
Project Name	NEH Grant Project: Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive

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