Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.".... the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation. The Hanlin was a unique place of learning - the Chinese equivalent of Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, Heidelberg and the Sorbonne all rolled into one. Its exquisitely painted pavilions housed one of the most ancient libraries of the world ..." Diana Preston (1999), p. 108."The following day [23rd June] the Chinese ... tried to burn the foreigners out again. However, no one had anticipated that they would set fire to the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation .... the main library, containing the choicest volumes [was left] still standing. In pa...
"Hankow fire at its height." View of burning buildings, Hankou.; One of a set of 16 loose prints wit...
Photographs probably taken before the Siege of Peking (June-August 1900). They occur in the album im...
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and de...
Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.".... the Hanl...
Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.".... the Hanl...
Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.".... the Hanl...
".... the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation. The Hanlin was a unique...
".... the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation. The Hanlin was a unique...
".... the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation. The Hanlin was a unique...
Late-nineteenth-century China suffered from a weak and declining central government, the incursions ...
Photographs occur in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900."On 16 June [1...
Late-nineteenth-century China suffered from a weak and declining central government, the incursions...
Photographs probably taken before the Siege of Peking (June-August 1900). They occur in the album fo...
Qianmen. "On 16 June [1900] Boxers attacked the richest trading quarter of the Chinese City, firing...
Photographs probably taken before the Siege of Peking (June-August 1900). They occur in the album im...
"Hankow fire at its height." View of burning buildings, Hankou.; One of a set of 16 loose prints wit...
Photographs probably taken before the Siege of Peking (June-August 1900). They occur in the album im...
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and de...
Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.".... the Hanl...
Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.".... the Hanl...
Photograph occurs in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900.".... the Hanl...
".... the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation. The Hanlin was a unique...
".... the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation. The Hanlin was a unique...
".... the Hanlin Academy, immediately to the north of the British Legation. The Hanlin was a unique...
Late-nineteenth-century China suffered from a weak and declining central government, the incursions ...
Photographs occur in album along with others of the Seige of Peking, June-August 1900."On 16 June [1...
Late-nineteenth-century China suffered from a weak and declining central government, the incursions...
Photographs probably taken before the Siege of Peking (June-August 1900). They occur in the album fo...
Qianmen. "On 16 June [1900] Boxers attacked the richest trading quarter of the Chinese City, firing...
Photographs probably taken before the Siege of Peking (June-August 1900). They occur in the album im...
"Hankow fire at its height." View of burning buildings, Hankou.; One of a set of 16 loose prints wit...
Photographs probably taken before the Siege of Peking (June-August 1900). They occur in the album im...
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and de...