A photographer taking a photograph in military earthworks

A photographer taking a photograph in military earthworks

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n088. BL-n088 is a crop of BL-n087.  Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '44: Casualties on battlefield. Bodies of men and horses. Photographer can be seen'.  Digitised from a negative made for a copy print.  The rough defensive earthworks seem to be a briefly held fort (or gun placement) between Peking (Beijing) and Tientsin (Tianjin)?  Boxer Uprising.

Caption in album or on mount

44

Estimated Date

1900

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

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