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31. Photo 1255(38)

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Photo 1255(38)
Title:
No. 14. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. A section of the outer wall, showing how it was reinforced on the inside with earth, stone, and timbers. When so reinforced, the total thickness was about six or seven feet. No cannon shot ever penetrated one of these fortified walls. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copright notice at bottom left of print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

32. 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

33. Photo 1255(10)

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Photo 1255(10)
Title:
No. 50. The Siege in Peking. In the Methodist Compound. Flash-light picture of Capt. Hall, of the American Marines, with the key of the Ha-ta-men Gate in his hand. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

34. Photo 1255(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
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

35. Photo 1255(22)

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Photo 1255(22)
Title:
No. 64. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. 'Hurrah! Here they are.' The British General Gazelee [Gaselee] is shown at the right of the photograph. He, with fifty Sikh soldiers, was the first to enter the city. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
View showing General Alfred Gaselee (1844-1918) and entourage in the Legation compound.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Aug 1900
Extent:
1 item

36. Photo 1255(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(6)
Title:
No. 43. The Siege in Peking. In the Methodist Compound. The Chapel. Some of the windows were bricked up to prevent the enemy from setting fire to the building, and others are loop-holed for rifles. From the top of this building a lookout was kept, and flag or lantern signals given to different parts of the large compound, much to the bewilderment and dislike of the enemy. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
General view of the chapel.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

37. Photo 1255(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(13)
Title:
No. 54. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. The Front Tinger, or Pavilion, occupied as a hotel by the proprietor and guests of the Peking Hotel. Here pony steaks and horse meat in every form were served up in the most tempting way by the accomplished French chef. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
View of the open-sided Chinese pavilion, showing European figures inside and boxes of provisions in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

38. Photo 1255(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(14)
Title:
No. 55. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. End view of the Front Tinger (or Pavilion). This part was usually occupied by about twenty foreign and native Catholic nuns, who were the guests of the manager of the Peking Hotel. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Second view of the Chinese pavilion in the Legation grounds.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

39. Photo 1255(40)

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Photo 1255(40)
Title:
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.
Scope & Content:
General view of a corner of the cemetery.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

40. Photo 1255(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
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