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.
No. 32. The Siege in Peking. In the Russian Legation. Graves of the American Marines and Russian soldiers, buried here side by side. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
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View of the row of freshly dug graves in the cemetery of the Russian Legation.
The burial place of the Tycoons [Tokyo]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the outer courtyard of one of the tombs: 'From the days of the fourth successor of Iyeyas, the founder of the late dynasty of Tycoons, these beautiful grounds in Shiba have been appropriated for the purpose of Tycoonal sepulture … In the outer quadrangle...