The Hanlin Academy (翰林院), Peking

The Hanlin Academy  (翰林院), Peking

Identifier

BL-n113

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n113. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '56: Damaged building and garden inside legation quarter.'  Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. The main building of the Han-lin Yuan (Hanlin Academy;  翰林院) - the Great Library of China.  The siege of the Legation Quarter, Peking (Beijing). On the right, fortifications and anti-mine trench.  N.B. the boy holding a gun. Photograph by Reverend Charles A. Killie.  See NA05-09.

Caption on photograph

COPYRIGHTS APPLIED FOR BY C.A. KILLIE. PEKING.

Location

Beijing

Date

Tuesday 14 March 1905

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph