early accounts of Korean scenes

...account of Korea published by Alexander Williamson in 1870. He got about as close as anyone could by selling Christian books to Koreans at the Palissade Gates in Manchuria, see http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/WilliamsonCorea1870.html where there is already another fascinating account of Koreans from about the same time, also from Manchuria, by an interesting American, Walton Grinnell. See http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/ManchuriaWaltonGrinnell.html with the full list of Old Books about Korea at http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/BooksKorea.htm

For early photos from the Prints and Photograph collection at the Library of Congress in USA, see http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com

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