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71. Photo 1255(44)

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Photo 1255(44)
Title:
No. 23. The Siege in Peking. In the British Legation. Group of American Missionaries in front of the Chapel. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print. Group portrait in front of the Legation chapel.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

72. Photo 1255(45)

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Photo 1255(45)
Title:
No. 24. The Siege in Peking. Gateway of the American Legation. Also showing one of the barricades built across Legation Street. The Chinese soldiers had a similar barricade across this street, only about twenty yards beyod this one. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom right of print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

73. Photo 1255(46)

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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

74. Photo 1255(47)

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Photo 1255(47)
Title:
No. 28. The Siege in Peking. The Ch'ien Men, or Front Gate. The walls here are double; and the photograph shows the space between the inner and the outer gate. This gate has since been burned by a fire started accidentally. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

75. Photo 1255(48)

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Photo 1255(48)
Title:
No. 29. The Siege in Peking. View from the Front Gate looking North towards the 'Forbidden City.' This photograph was taken during thr bombardment. The bodies of three dead Chinese soldiers are seen lying in the foreground. Photographer: Killie, Charles A.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Copyright notice at bottom left of print. View looking towards the Forbidden City, printed from a broken glass plate.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

76. 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

77. Photo 1255(50)

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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

78. Photo 1255(51)

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Photo 1255(51)
Title:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1900
Extent:
1 item

79. Photo 1351/4

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Photo 1351/4
Title:
Photograph album compiled by a soldier serving in India. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Snapshot album compiled by an unidentified soldier serving in India (not apparently connected with other items in Photo 1351). The album contains 392 small prints, mostly captioned, a mixture of amateur and purchased work compiled (from the evidence of dated images) between 1926 and 1936. Subjec...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926-1936
Extent:
Photograph album containing 392 prints