[A young Korean man and a boy]
Cornell University Library
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library Title: [A young Korean man and a boy] Date: ca. 1904 Place: Asia: South KoreaType: Photographs Description: Both a young man and a boy in identical outfits. They wear echogorie (short jacket) and epajie (trousers). Their epajie are tied with etaenime (ribbon) at the lower ends of the trousers. Both of them have echumonie (wallets), for the safekeeping of cash under their waists. Their shoes are echipsine that are made of straws. Their outfit suggests that they are not from very rich families, but probably belong to the working class.Identifier: 1260.62.08.03 Persistent URI:http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xq0 There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source. We had some help with the geocoding from Web Services by Yahoo!
Women washing laundry in stream]
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: [Women washing laundry in stream]
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Photographs
Description: Women are shown washing laundry in the stream running through a side street. In traditional Korean society it was common for women washing laundry in the open. Drinking water, on the other hand, for commoners was supplied mainly from communal wells, except for some 'yangban' (aristocratic) households that had their own. Source: Kim, Chewon. Seoul, 1969. (This Beautiful World ; v. 2)
Identifier: 1260.57.22.01
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5xkf
kushibo2000 (6 months ago | reply)
I could be wrong, but I think your description may be inaccurate. I don't think this is a street with a stream running through it but the streamed itself. It's possible it could be Ch'ŏnggyech'ŏn (Cheonggyecheon).
Korean boatman
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: Korean boatman
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Portraits
Description: Korean sailor takes a break from trasporting cargo and people, sitting under the shadow from the sail, smoking from his long bamboo pipe. He wears cool hemp clothes.
Korean Colonel CAJ
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: Korean Colonel CAJ
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea: Seoul
Type: Photographs
Description: Three Japanese officials are shown at a king's cemetery site. Kings' cemeteries of the Yi Dynasty were guarded by stone warriors and animals. The custom was presumably introduced into Korea during the Silla period from China. Source: Kim, Chewon. Seoul, 1969. p. 129.
[King Kojong and King Sunjong]
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: [King Kojong and King Sunjong]
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea: Seoul
Type: Photographs
Description: King 'Kojong' (left) and his son his heir (the future king)' Sunjong' are shown in full ceremonial dress of the Great Han. This western style attire was begun in 1895 by King Kojong's order. The headwear cannot be traced to any particular (imported) tradition. 'Kojong' ruled from 1864-1907. In late 1895, he and the crown prince, 'Sunjong', fled to the Russian legation after the assasination of Queen Min by the Japanese forces present in Korea. Upon his return in early 1897, 'Kojong' proclaimed the independent 'Great Han Empire' and thus he became Emperor of Korea. Kojong's opposition to the Protectorate treaty was well known as an imperial letter, which condemned the treaty and appealed for intervention from the Hague, was published in the popular Korea Daily News (Taehan Maeil Sinbo). The Japanese used this beligerent act as a pretext to tighten control and forced 'Kojong' to abdicate the throne to his son. In 1907, 'Sunjong' became emperor, but it became clear very quickly that he was actually just a puppet of the Japanese military command. Source: ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~korea/kojong.html (viewed May 9, 2003) [need more research on headwears]
An ox market in Corea
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: An ox market in Corea
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Postcards/Ephemera
Description: This postcard shows a traditional ox market. Cows or oxen used to be very important (and expensive) assets for farming. Oxen or bullocks were also used in transportion and road works.
[Korean men with sunglasses]
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: [Korean men with sunglasses]
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Photographs
Description: Two middle-aged Korean gentlemen walking down the street. They wear a traditional Korean costume, echogorie and epajie with eturumagie that is tied with two long ekorume on the upper part of the coat. Their epajie are tied with etaenime at the lower ends of trousers. Both of them have echumonie, that contains money, under their waists. Their hat, called a ehukripe or commonly a ekate is made out of horsehair. Their shoes are ekomusine. The sunglasses reflect a modern attire among the upper-class Korean gentry.
Korean woman wrapped in cloak]
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: [Korean woman wrapped in cloak]
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea
Type: Photographs
Description: Korean women from the lower class of old Korea wore cloaks over their heads for outing. The cloak is called essugae chimae or changot, which is a coat-style veil. Originally changot was the everyday wear for both kings and commoners. Since the time of King 'Sejo' (1417-1468), however, women began to wear the robe, and it then evolved as a veil for women. The inner and outer collars were symmetrical in shape, while the neckline and sleeve-ends were trimmed with a wide, white bias. The collar, ties and armpits were purple. Source: Kwon, O-chang. Inmurhwaro ponun Choson sidae uri ot, 1998, p. 124.
[Wedding procession]
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: [Wedding procession]
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea; Seoul
Type: Photographs
Description: Judging from the appearance and colorful outfits, this image probably depicts a wedding procession. A bride is inside a sedan chair and her belongings are carried by a man behind the chair. The chair is called a 'kama'.
[Min Yong-hwan's state funeral procession]
Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: [Min Yong-hwan's state funeral procession]
Date: ca. 1904
Place: Asia: South Korea; Seoul
Type: Photographs
Description: Photograph of Min Yong-hwan's state funeral (Dec. 16-18 1905). On this funeral procession, see the web site under 'Letters from Troubled Seoul', under the date Dec. 17, 1905.
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