Album of scenes in China during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900-1901 / owned by William Heitmann Williams

PXB 738

fonds

1900-1901

Graphic Materials, Photographs

1060908

1 album (46 postcards) - albumen, hand-coloured - 15 x 19.6 cm

Album originally belonged to William Heitmann Williams, the donor's grandfather. The album is probably made up from German postcards as the number 7 on the captions has the crossed line through it

1. Choyomon, Peking
1. View of Tientsin
2. Tennanmon, Peking
2. View of Tientsin
3. Sinbumon, Peking
3. View of Tientsin
4. Gate of Palace, Peking
5. Castle of Peking
5. View of Tientsin
6. Naishihamon, Peking
6. View of Tientsin
7. View of Tientsin
8. Peking
8. View of Tientsin
9. Palace of Maysan, Peking
10. View of Tientsin
10. Pond of Palace, Peking
11. View of Tientsin
12. Palace of Peking
14. Palace of Peking
15. Palace of Peking
16. Pond and Palace, Peking
17. View of Palace, Peking
18. Haimoncho Pumiton, Peking
18. Gate of Sanhocho, Peking
19. Chieusan Uchotin, Peking
20. West gate of Peking
22. Tannanmon, Peking
23. Haimon, Peking
24. East gate of Peking
25. Bayhai, Peking
26. Panorama of Palace, Peking
28. City of Peking
31. Nine different nationalities
32. Chinese singing girls
33. Execution of Boxer leaders
36. Street of Peking
37. Burnt Street by Boxers, Peking
39. Post Office, Tientsin
40. Burnt street by Boxers

Unnumbered views:
Gate of Chiusan, Peking
Gate of temple, Takunshion, Peking
View of Peking
Execution of Boxer leaders
[European men with executed Chinese]
[Unidentified tower]

The album was originally a concertina (accordion or zig-zag) binding of postcards randomly numbered, with numbers missing and some duplication of numbers. The original order is not known as many of the attachments between each leaf have broken

Out of copyright: Photographer died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Front cover: Lacquer scene of a man pulling a rickshaw with a woman holding a parasol
Back cover: missing

W.H. Williams - stamp on the front endpaper