Inner City (Tartar City) wall with makeshift barricades (Boxer Uprising), Beijing

Inner City (Tartar City) wall with makeshift barricades (Boxer Uprising), Beijing

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n109. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '54: Ruins'. Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. Barricades etc put up on the Tartar City (Inner City) walls during the Siege of the Legations (Boxer Uprising), Peking (Beijing). In the background on the right is the ruin of arrow tower of Chongwenmen (崇文門 Hatamen).

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1900

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

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