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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1255 Subject Dwellings Material Type Photographs

1. Photo 1255(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(1)
Title:
[Chinese family group, Peking.] Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Study of a Chinese family posed on the verandah of a traditional house. This image is uncaptioned and unattributed, but possibly by Killie.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1255(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(15)
Title:
No. 57. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. The First Secretary's house with its fortifications. The trees were cut down and used for barricades and bombproof. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
General view of the two-storey house, with verandahs sandbagged.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1255(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(31)
Title:
No. 7. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. First Secretary's House, showing how it was fortified with bricks and sand bags. Men of the Signal Service on the roof. The house was constantly under fire, and was hit by probably thousands of rifle bullets, besides solid shot and fragments of shells. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1255(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(32)
Title:
No. 8. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. Secretary Cockburn's House, with a 'Bomb-proof,' three or four feet deep, in front of it. The earth in the yard was dug up and used to fill sand bags. There was a sentry post on the roof. The inclined way was prepared for the purpose of taking a rapid-fire gun up on to the roof. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print. View looking across the garden towards the house, where Henry Cockburn (1859-1927), Chinese Secretary to the British Legation 1896-1906, is seated on the verandah with two women.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1255(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(37)
Title:
No. 13. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. House and Gate in the South Stable Court, ruined by shot and shell fired by the Chinese soldiers. The house was completely wrecked. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
General view of the building, much damaged by Chinese shelling.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1255(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(39)
Title:
No. 15. The Siege in Peking. Showing the only good building left in the Han-lin-yuan. The others were almost all destroyed by the 'Boxers' in their efforts to burn the Legation buildings. Also showing the outer and inner lines of defence, with a countermine between. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item