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A Traveler's Diary from 1835

Pekin in the time of cholera: the ‘Blue Death’ comes to Pekin

In the summer of 1834, the small pioneer community of Pekin – just four...

A glimpse inside ‘A Traveler’s Diary from 1835’

By Jared Olar Local History Specialist Last autumn a newly-published diary detailing an Easterner’s...

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