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Collection Area Visual Arts Container Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1255

31. Photo 1255(31)

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Photo 1255(31)
Title:
No. 7. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. First Secretary's House, showing how it was fortified with bricks and sand bags. Men of the Signal Service on the roof. The house was constantly under fire, and was hit by probably thousands of rifle bullets, besides solid shot and fragments of shells. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

32. Photo 1255(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(32)
Title:
No. 8. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. Secretary Cockburn's House, with a 'Bomb-proof,' three or four feet deep, in front of it. The earth in the yard was dug up and used to fill sand bags. There was a sentry post on the roof. The inclined way was prepared for the purpose of taking a rapid-fire gun up on to the roof. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print. View looking across the garden towards the house, where Henry Cockburn (1859-1927), Chinese Secretary to the British Legation 1896-1906, is seated on the verandah with two women.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

33. Photo 1255(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(33)
Title:
No. 9. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. 'Fort Cockburn,' with the Nordenfeldt rapid-fire gun and gunner, Sgt. Murphy. Also showing the Fortification Staff. (Beginning on the left of the picture): Rev's Ewing, F. D. Gamewell, Chairman; Killie, Norris, Stonehouse, and Chapin. Six 'Fighting Parsons.' Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 1255(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(34)
Title:
No. 10. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. 'When the Troops arrived.' Crowd of troops and civilians in front of the bell tower. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
View in the Legation compound, showing troops and spectators. A somewhat blurred image.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

35. Photo 1255(35)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(35)
Title:
No. 11. The Siege in Peking. In the Mongol Market (adjoining the British Legation). International Gun, 'Our Betsey.' The gun was call[ed] 'International,' because it was an old British gun, was found in a Chinese junk shop, mounted on an Italian gun carriage, used Russian ammunition, and was fired by an American gunner. The Chinese soldiers were so close at this point that they could throw bricks and stones over the wall. A number of our men were injured in this way. American Gunner Mitchell...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

36. Photo 1255(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(36)
Title:
No. 12. The Siege in Peking. In the Mongol Market. Gun Stand for the Italian One-pounder Gun. Group of British Marines. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

37. Photo 1255(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(37)
Title:
No. 13. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. House and Gate in the South Stable Court, ruined by shot and shell fired by the Chinese soldiers. The house was completely wrecked. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
General view of the building, much damaged by Chinese shelling.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

38. Photo 1255(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(38)
Title:
No. 14. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. A section of the outer wall, showing how it was reinforced on the inside with earth, stone, and timbers. When so reinforced, the total thickness was about six or seven feet. No cannon shot ever penetrated one of these fortified walls. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copright notice at bottom left of print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

39. Photo 1255(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(39)
Title:
No. 15. The Siege in Peking. Showing the only good building left in the Han-lin-yuan. The others were almost all destroyed by the 'Boxers' in their efforts to burn the Legation buildings. Also showing the outer and inner lines of defence, with a countermine between. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

40. Photo 1255(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(40)
Title:
No. 16. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. Cemetery where some of those who were killed, or who died from disease, during the siege, were buried. Some of the graves contain the bodies of as many as three people, there being no time to dig a separate grave for each one. Neither could coffins be made for them. About seventy foreigners died in one way or another during the siege. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
General view of a corner of the cemetery.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item