Corpses laid out in a field after a battle

Corpses laid out in a field after a battle

Collection

Wheeler, Charles

Identifier

Wr-s087

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Wr-s087. See 'The Birth of a Republic - Francis Stafford’s Photographs of China’s 1911 Revolution and Beyond' by Hanchao Lu (University of Washington Press, 2010), page 87 (another view of the bodies), which is captioned: "Bodies of soldiers from both sides who died in a battle on October 18 near Liujiamiao Station on the outskirts of Hankou. The insurgents defeated the Qing army in that battle". See WS01-113 and WS01-117.

Caption on photograph

26

Location

Wuhan

Estimated Date

1911-1912

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph