• Title
  Item 16: Photographs of Asia, ca. 1886-1913 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
• Call number
  PX*D 151/vol. 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1886-1913
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  853289
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : 26 photographs only selected for digitisation
  
• Physical Description
  1 album (48 pages, 366 chiefly photographic prints): - 41 x 49.5 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Most of the photographs are untitled and undated. Included are photographs of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900 taken by Reverend Charles A. Killie; photographs of the Russian-Japanese Peace Conference in 1905 taken by Perry Connor; portraits of University of Edinburgh lecturers, 1886; photographs of historic sites, landscapes and local people taken during George Ernest Morrison’s 1910 travels through Northwest China; and a panorama of Peking.
  Locations include Peking, Tientsin, Yangtze River, International Friends Institute in Chungking, Hami, Hsing Hsing Hsia, Kuldja, Suchow and Urumchi.
  
  Below is a listing of the 26 images that have been digitised:
  p. 2. (b) Peking 1900
  [The Siege of Peking. In the British Legation. First Secretary (Henry Cockburn) 's house, showing how it is fortified with bricks and sand bags]. Copyright Applied for by C.A. Killie, Peking
  p. 9. Peking panorama
  p. 10. Shanxi University, Yao, Director, Pin, Okada, Experimental field
  p. 13. (a) Shanxi Yamen
  p. 13. (c) American Army mourn over a soldier's death
  [The Siege of Peking. The body of American Artillery Captain Riley lying in the Front Gate (Ch'ien Men) building, surrounded by his men]. Copyright Applied for by C.A. Killie, Peking
  p. 13. (d) Railway accident
  p. 15. (a) Russian soldier on the wall, 1900
  p. 15. (c) Foreign missionaries at dinner
  p. 20. (a) Sun Tian-Lu with child at the front of Morrison's house gate
  p. 25. (b) Peking, 1900
  [The Siege of Peking. Gateway to the American Legation]. Copyright C.A. Killie, Peking
  p. 27. (b) Peking, 1900
  [The Siege of Peking. In the British Legation. "Fort Cockburn with Nordenfeldt rapid-fire gun and gunner, Sgt. Murphy]. Copyright Applied for by C.A. Killie, Peking
  p. 27. (e) Peking, 1900
  [The Siege of Peking. Fortified "Ramp" back of the American Legation, leading to the American position on the city wall]. Copyright Applied for by C.A. Killie, Peking
  p. 28. (d) The 'International' gun, Boxer Rebellion, 1900.
  [The Siege of Peking. In the Mongol Market (adjoining the British Legation). International Gun, "our Betsy".] Copyright Applied for by C.A. Killie, Peking
  p. 30. (e) Graveyard and ceremony, 1900
  p. 33. (b) Armed students
  p. 34. (f) Opium smoking
  p. 42 (b) Students preparing to move
  p. 42 (e) Morrison's house gate
  p. 17 (d) View taken by Duke Lan of his pavilion with his guests.
  p. 26 (c) Hsi Ta Chiao by Duke Lan
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Molixun yan li de jin dai Zhongguo = Old China through G.E. Morrison's eyes / Shen Jiawei bian zhuan ; Dou Kun deng yi. Fuzhou : Fujian jiao yu chu ban she, 2007. Edition Di 2 ban. G.E. Morrison's journey in northwest China in 1910 / captioned and photographed by G.E. Morrison ; compiled and translated by Dou Kim & Helen Lo = 1910, Molixun Zhongguo xi bei xing / Molixun tu wen ; Dou Kun Hai Lun bian yi.
• Description source
  
  Additional titles of photographs in brackets from:
  50 Views of Siege of Peking. Charles A. Killie of Peking
  https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:34313#page/1/mode/1up
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823232
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographs of Siege of Peking (Siege of the International Legations), 1900 on pages 2b, 13c, 16a, 18b, 19d, 19e, 22f, 25b, 27b, 27e, 28d, 29e, 30b and 31b are "Copyright Applied for by C.A. Killie, Peking"
  
  Photographs of Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, 1905 on pages 2d, 14d, 17c, 24e and 31e are "Copyright 1905 Perry E. Connor Portsmouth, N.H."
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
  Killie, Charles A. (Charles Andrews), 1857-1916
  Zailan, 1856-1916
  Conner, Perry E.
  
• Subject
  Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--Peace.
  Sieges--China.
  Photograph albums.
  
• Place
  China
  China--History--Boxer Rebellion--1899-1901.
  Beijing (China)
  China, Northwest.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1633781

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