Twin babies in panniers, with French nun

A well with metal post and pulley, Beijing

Sailors and Chinese workers repairing railway track on a bridge, Wuqing, during the Boxer Uprising

Men with performing sheep, monkey and dog

Men with performing sheep, monkey and dog

Allied War Memorial, Bund, Shanghai, without bronzes

Sailor on a stone elephant, Spirit Way (南京), Xiao Ling Mausoleum (孝陵), near Nanjing (南京市)

British soldier, Welch Regiment, Shanghai

British soldier, Welch Regiment, Shanghai

British soldier, Welch Regiment, Shanghai

British soldier, Welch Regiment, Shanghai

Japanese war memorial (Martyrs Memorial), Hakugyokuzan, Dalian (大连市)

Bust of Luís de Camões, Macau

Pushing a car up a hill, near Chentow

Performing arts troupe, Zhang Jiashan Village, Weihai (威海)

Flower garden, at an airfield

East Mountain Temple, near Soochow, with two joss paper receptacles

The funeral procession of the Empress Dowager Longyu, Peking

Bier of Empress Dowager Longyu, funeral procession, Peking

Ship's band, HMS Despatch

A notice for car drivers on a wall

British Royal Marines band on two lorries

Bearers carrying a baby in a pram

China's Rock - a post card published by Missionary Helps Depot

Sampans converted into riverside dwellings on stilts

Simon – the ship’s cat on HMS Amethyst during the Yangtse Incident

'Annie' and 'Cuthbert', HMS Cumberland, Hankou

Large moth, HMS Cumberland, Hankou

Cantonese looking through a gate, The English Bridge, Guangzhou

Three men posed in a photographer's studio – two wearing palm leaf raincoats and bamboo hats

Three men posed in a photographer's studio – two wearing palm leaf raincoats and bamboo hats

Beggar with malformed or swollen foot, and coins

A missionary gathering on a beach in England - CHINA FOR CHRIST

A missionary gathering on a beach in England

Fishermen on a fishing boat with cormorants

Rickshaws turning in a busy street, Hong Kong

'King of the Beggars', Longhua Pagoda, Shanghai

'King of the Beggars', Longhua Pagoda, Shanghai

The Pearl River with jetties, sampans and a paddle steamer, Guangzhou

The Pearl River with jetties, sampans and a paddle steamer, Guangzhou

Two men in a grove of cultivated bamboo, near Nanjing

Two men in a grove of cultivated bamboo, near Nanjing (left hand part of a stereoscopic card)

Two men in a grove of cultivated bamboo, near Nanjing (right hand part of a stereoscopic card)

Firing of a Japanese 11-inch siege gun, Port Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese War

Firing of a Japanese 11-inch siege gun, Port Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese War

A 'discouraged' poor man dying in a 'Dying Field', Guangzhou

A 'discouraged' poor man dying in a 'Dying Field', Guangzhou

Sheep grazing in a cemetery outside Tianjin

Sheep grazing in a cemetery outside Tianjin

Watering a field with pails on a yoke

Camel sledges in winter

People attending missionary talks and stalls relating to China, India and Africa

'Crossing the Line' ceremony, HMS Carlisle

'Crossing the Line' ceremony, HMS Carlisle

Topiary guards at Kek Lok Si (極樂寺), a Chinese Buddhist temple at Ayer Itam (Air Itam), George Town, Penang, Malaysia

John Thomson FRGS, photographer and author

Actors

Making silk stockings, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London

Husking rice with a stone wheel and an ox (chaser mill), Yinzhou (鄞州), Ningbo

Funeral of a Chinese high official, Shanghai