Ministers of Foreign Powers during negotiations with China—leaving Spanish Legation—Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Prince Ching, Commander of the City Guard—secret friend of Legation during Siege—later Peace Commissioner, Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Reverent but prejudicial ancestor worship—one of China's immense cemeteries, which seriously lessen her productive land area. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
View along the Bund from Municipal Council Building—Hankow, interior China's greatest tea port. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
The Empress Dowager's Counsellors in dealing with the Powers—members of the Tsung-li Yamen, Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Junk flotilla on the Pei-ho River—transporting U.S. Army stores from Tientsin to Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
A chain gang in China—in the throroughfare wearing 'cangues,' which record their crimes, Soo-chow. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
A genial official of interior China—naval mandarin (Admiral River Fleet), wife and daughter, Kinkow. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Family of the lower class 'chowing,' in their home, partially destroyed during the siege, Tientsin, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood