Repairing the 'Lest we forget' corner, British legation, Peking

Repairing the 'Lest we forget' corner, British legation, Peking

Identifier

BL-n041

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n041. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '20: Corner of legation - 'Lest we forget'.' Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. The phrase 'Lest we forget' was taken from the 1897 Rudyard Kipling poem, Recessional.  See BL-n063 and NA06-08.

Caption in album or on mount

20

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1901

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph