Chinese gun platform overlooking the Legation Quarter, Peking

Chinese gun platform overlooking the Legation Quarter, Peking

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n045. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: 'Bamboo ramparts'. On the handwritten list, this photograph is captioned: 'Chinese g.p.'  This Chinese gun platform was erected against the Tartar wall, overlooking the Legation Quarter, Peking (Beijing), during the Siege of the Legations, Boxer Uprising.  Digitised from a negative made for a copy print.  See also BL-n047.

Caption in album or on mount

22

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1900

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

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