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Auction house Sotheby’s is to put on sale Tuesday a collection of photos of Beijing, taken by the Italian-British photographer Felice Beato. Beato came to China in 1860 as a war photographer along with invading Anglo-French forces during the Second Opium War.
Showing Beijing in the days before sky-scrapers...
These rare photographs taken more than 150 years ago are thought to be among the first ever pictures taken of China.
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