Sailors and Chinese workers repairing railway track on a bridge, Wuqing, during the Boxer Uprising
Collection
Identifier
JC-s107
Copyright
© 2016 Jamie Carstairs
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: JC-s107. This image is from a cigarette card ('Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarettes') made with photographic paper. Cigarette cards were supplied free in a packet of cigarettes. See an almost complete set of Boxer Uprising 'Ogden's Guinea Gold' cigarette cards in the Jim Williams Collection (for example JW-s14). Note the fire scorched sleepers, indicative of damage by sabotage by Boxer rebels. Yangtsun (now Wuqing)
Caption on photograph
With Admiral Seymour's Relief Expedition. / Handy Men building a Bridge near Yangtsun. / By permission of Black & White.
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Location
Estimated Date
1901
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
