Photographs of Beijing and its surrounding areas taken by Rainie Noon in 1910 (Part 1)

Photo of Beijing and its surrounding areas taken by Cohen in 1910 (I). There are about 154 photos (some of which are hand-painted), reflecting the people’s livelihood and style of Beijing at that time. This series was roughly shot around 1910 and is now in the Dutch Museum of Ethnology

Clarence Eugene Lemunyon was born on July 4, 1860, in Manchester Center, Ontario, New York, USA. He died in Beijing on April 21, 1929. According to Hong Kong newspapers, he opened a photo studio in Hong Kong in 1902 to operate photographic equipment imported from New York. Later, he went to Beijing to operate a photo studio and photography. He worked there at least from the early 20th century to the 1930s. Rainie Noon’s photography works are retro in style and are good at painting photos by hand. Many of them are classic works. According to Heida Morrison, a German female photographer who lived in Beijing in the 1930s and 1940s, Reninorn’s photography style had a deep influence on her

This group of photos mainly select the characters