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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(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(8)
Title:
No. 47. The Siege in Peking. In the Methodist Compound. Interior of the Chapel, showing the pulpit platform piled with provisions. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1255(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(7)
Title:
No. 46. The Siege in Peking. In the Methodist Compound. Interior of the Chapel, showing the bundles of bedding of those who slept therein. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1255(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1255(9)
Title:
No. 48. The Siege in Peking. In the Methodist Compound. Interior of the Chapel, showing the vestry filled with trunks. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

5. 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

6. 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

7. Photo 1255(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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