Republican soldiers in Sing Seng Road, Hankow, shooting towards a Qing army maxim gun

Republican soldiers in Sing Seng Road, Hankow, shooting towards a Qing army maxim gun

Notes

University of Bristol – Historical Photographs of China reference number: WS01-061. The road name is recorded as Sing Seng Road ("the smartest thoroughfare of Hankow") in the account 'China's Revolution 1911-1912' by Edwin J. Dingle, published in 1912.

Caption in album or on mount

Republican last stand in Sin Sing road. An Imperial Maxim is firing down the road towards the camera against the republican soldiers.

Caption on photograph

5

Location

Wuhan

Date

October 1911

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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