Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the town of Kagoshima towards the bay, with a cemetery in the immediate foreground and the volcano of Sakurajima on the skyline.
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.
Scope & Content:
View of the row of freshly dug graves in the cemetery of the Russian Legation.
Photos 1406(1-36) relate to the Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and the removal of the graves there, on the orders of the Burmese Government in 1991, to a new site at Kyandaw on the outskirts of the city. The graves were subsequently moved again, in c. 1997, to Ye Way in Okkalapa District.
[Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery - View from Fence]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Photos 1406(1-36) relate to the Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and the removal of the graves there, on the orders of the Burmese Government in 1991, to a new site at Kyandaw on the outskirts of the city. The graves were subsequently moved again, in c. 1997, to Ye Way in Okkalapa District.
[Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery - View of Tomb with Burmese Inscription]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Photos 1406(1-36) relate to the Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and the removal of the graves there, on the orders of the Burmese Government in 1991, to a new site at Kyandaw on the outskirts of the city. The graves were subsequently moved again, in c. 1997, to Ye Way in Okkalapa District.
[Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery - Men Moving Tombstone]. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Photos 1406(1-36) relate to the Rangoon Cantonment Cemetery and the removal of the graves there, on the orders of the Burmese Government in 1991, to a new site at Kyandaw on the outskirts of the city. The graves were subsequently moved again, in c. 1997, to Ye Way in Okkalapa District.