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1191. Photo 1255(45)

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Photo 1255(45)
Title:
No. 24. The Siege in Peking. Gateway of the American Legation. Also showing one of the barricades built across Legation Street. The Chinese soldiers had a similar barricade across this street, only about twenty yards beyod this one. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom right of print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

1192. Photo 1255(46)

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Photo 1255(46)
Title:
No. 25. The Siege in Peking. Fortified 'Ramp' back of the American Legation, leading to the American position on the city wall. Probably the hardest fighting of the siege took place on this section of the wall. At one time the American soldiers held the incline on the left and the Chinese soldiers the one on the right, and waged battle across the narrow space at the top, where each had built a barricade. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print. View looking along the wall towards the fortified ramp.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

1193. Photo 1255(47)

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Photo 1255(47)
Title:
No. 28. The Siege in Peking. The Ch'ien Men, or Front Gate. The walls here are double; and the photograph shows the space between the inner and the outer gate. This gate has since been burned by a fire started accidentally. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

1194. Photo 1255(48)

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Photo 1255(48)
Title:
No. 29. The Siege in Peking. View from the Front Gate looking North towards the 'Forbidden City.' This photograph was taken during thr bombardment. The bodies of three dead Chinese soldiers are seen lying in the foreground. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print. View looking towards the Forbidden City, printed from a broken glass plate.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

1195. Photo 1255(49)

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Photo 1255(49)
Title:
No. 30. The Siege in Peking. View looking along the wall separating the Chinese, or outer city from the main, or Tartar city. Looking West from the Front Gate (Ch'ien Men). Showing borken barricade, and tents, and cannon, alldeserted by the Chinese soldiers. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

1196. Photo 1255(50)

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Photo 1255(50)
Title:
No. 31. The Siege in Peking. The body of the American Artillery Captain Riley lying in the Front Gate (Ch'ien Men) building, surrounded by his men. Captain Riley was killed during the attack on the 'Forbidden City,' the day fater the relieving forces reached Peking. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
View of the body, lying in the doorway and draped with the American flag, with troops grouped behind.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

1197. Photo 1255(51)

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Photo 1255(51)
Title:
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.
Scope & Content:
View of the row of freshly dug graves in the cemetery of the Russian Legation.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

1198. Photo 1263(1)

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Photo 1263(1)
Title:
'The pigeon's letter. 'L'International' containing the news of the French victory at Orleans.' Photographer: London Stereoscopic Company
Scope & Content:
Miniature print mounted as a carte de visite, with descriptive letterpress on mount. The photograph is a reduced image (much faded) of the front page of L'International sent by pigeon during the Franco-Prussian War. The overmount, on which is printed descriptive letterpress describing the use of...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

1199. Photo 1297(1)

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Photo 1297(1)
Title:
The Mikado's Infantry fighting behind intrenchments—load and fire at will [Russo-Japanese War]. Photographer: Keystone View Company
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1905
Extent:
1 item

1200. Photo 1297(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1297(4)
Title:
Japanese engineers building a bridge over a Manchurian stream [Russo-Japanese War]. Photographer: Keystone View Company
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1905
Extent:
1 item