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211. IOR/L/PS/20/65(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(3)
Title:
En route to interview the Viceroy of yun-kuei. The first British uniform in Yun-nan city. Understand the city wall, inside. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
Procession posed in front of the city walls of Kunming, the leading figures bearing a sedan chair, in front of which Wingate stands, in uniform. Wingate arrived in Kunming on 8 February 1899, and was obliged to wait for about 12 days before being granted an interview with Sung-fan, Viceroy of Yü...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item

212. IOR/L/PS/20/65(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(4)
Title:
The only kind of wheeled vehicle in S.-W. China. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View of a two-wheeled wooden buffalo cart being led on a country road in Yunnan.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

213. IOR/L/PS/20/65(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(5)
Title:
A Chinese rough and ready 'Sedan Chair' for the mountains. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View of a man being carried on a wooden chair slung over poles carried by two porters. Wingate's additional note on the conveyance reads: 'A suggestion for hill-warfare. These two men carried the man on the chair up and down 2,000 and 3,000 feet of steep mountain-side, and across rapid-flowing r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

214. IOR/L/PS/20/65(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(6)
Title:
Ching-tung [Jingdong] city from temple one mile south of twon, looking west towards Ta-li. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
Distant view, looking across paddy fields towards the town.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1899
Extent:
1 item

215. IOR/L/PS/20/65(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(7)
Title:
Ching-tung [Jingdong] valley, looking south from point two miles south of Ching-tung city. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View along the river valley towards mountains.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Mar 1899
Extent:
1 item

216. IOR/L/PS/20/65(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(8)
Title:
Yun-nan soldier on the march. A personal body-guard. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of a Chinese soldier, standing with his pack hanging from the rifle slung over his shoulder, and holding an umbrella above his head.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

217. IOR/L/PS/20/65(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(9)
Title:
The 'guardians' of Yun-nan city ready to fire the two-man gun or jingall. (These are the men whom the invader will have to encounter). Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
Group of Chinese soldiers posed on the verandah of a house, with the guns in the firing position. One man holds the stock, aims and fires the weapon, while resting the massive barrel on the shoulder of the man standing in front.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item

218. IOR/L/PS/20/65(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(10)
Title:
Yun-nan [Kunming] city, No. 1. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View across the rooftops of Kunming towards distant mountains. This and following views are presumably taken from the point described in the report as Wu-hua-Shan: 'From the south gate the ground gradually rises within the walls to the Wu-hua-Shan, which is nearly in the centre of the city, and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item

219. IOR/L/PS/20/65(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(11)
Title:
Yun-nan [Kunming] city, No. 2, continued on to left of No. 1. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View across the rooftops of Kunming towards the hills. See note at print 10.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item

220. IOR/L/PS/20/65(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/65(12)
Title:
Yun-nan [Kunming] city, No. 3, continued on to left of No. 2. Looking S.-W. towards W. side of lake. Photographer: Wingate, Alfred Woodrow Stanley
Scope & Content:
View across the rooftops of Kunming, with a tall pagoda visible in the distance on the left. See note at print 10.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Feb 1899
Extent:
1 item

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