photographs
PH1983:0516:029
ca. 1869
View of tea house on the Tokaido road, showing a group of people standing on a bridge over river, near Nagasaki, Japan
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PH1983:0516:029
photographs
ca. 1869
PH1988:0426:061
May 6, 1930
PH1988:0426:062
May 6, 1930
PH1988:0426:056
June 2, 1930
PH1988:0426:057
June 2, 1930
drawings
PH1987:0452.01:051
architecture, engineering
1901 or before
drawings
1901 or before
architecture, engineering
photographs
PH1980:1017:068
ca. 1891
photographs
ca. 1891
drawings
ARCH21207
1910-1912
drawings
1910-1912
photographs
PH1981:0505:037
1935 ?
photographs
1935 ?
photographs
PH1986:0901:017
Description:
- The inscription accompanying this photograph refers to events between 18 September and 14 October 1860. On 18 September 1860, during the Second Opium War (1858-1860), 39 British and French civilians and soldiers were taken hostage by the Chinese. Among the hostages were Harry Smith Parkes, the British commissioner in Canton (now Guangzhou) and Henry Loch, private secretary to Lord Elgin, who were later released, and Captain Brabazon of the Royal Artillery, who was killed (Harris, p. 153).
engineering
between 21 September and 2 October 1860
View of the Palichao (now Baliqiao) bridge, Tung-chow (Tongzhou, also now known as Tongxian), near Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0901:017
Description:
- The inscription accompanying this photograph refers to events between 18 September and 14 October 1860. On 18 September 1860, during the Second Opium War (1858-1860), 39 British and French civilians and soldiers were taken hostage by the Chinese. Among the hostages were Harry Smith Parkes, the British commissioner in Canton (now Guangzhou) and Henry Loch, private secretary to Lord Elgin, who were later released, and Captain Brabazon of the Royal Artillery, who was killed (Harris, p. 153).
photographs
between 21 September and 2 October 1860
engineering