Historical Photographs of China

A cartload of loot and an arrested man, outside a police station, Tianjin (Peking Mutiny 1912)

A cartload of loot and an arrested man, outside a police station, Tianjin (Peking Mutiny 1912)

Collection

Cooper, William

Identifier

WC01-195

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: WC01-195. This photograph was printed the wrong way round and the digital copy of the print has been flipped, so that the image is now the right way round. The photograph relates to the Peking Mutiny (北京兵变). In the background is a police station. The image was published in ‘Scenes Taken in China of the Boxer War and the Late Revolution (Peking-Tientsin Pub. Co.) and captioned: ‘85 A carload of loot captured by the police, Tientsin, China, March 3, 1912.’ See WC01-180. See also WC01-194.

Location

Tianjin

Date

Sunday 3 March 1912

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections