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Title
View of man in Russian cemetery, Beijing, China, ca. 1861-1864
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1861/1864
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Council for World Missions
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"The graves of the English prisoners in the Russian cemetery. Anderson - Bowlby - de Norman -Phipps. The fifth grave is in mission of Capt. Brabazon." Oval print of a man, probably the photographer, standing by the side of the graves. One of a set of prints by an unidentified Russian photographer, bearing caption in English and also captions in Russian on the reverse. They are also accompanied by a hand written list of captions, and where this differs from the caption witten on the print, this has been included in square brackets above.
Bowlby, the Times' correspondent, De Norman and Brabazon were all part of a delegation to Tongzhou during the second Opium Wars in September 1860, after which they were imprisoned and executed. Brabazon was beheaded and his body thrown into the canal. The execution of these prisoneers was one of the causes of the Anglo-French attack on Beijing and the burning of the Summer Palace.
William Lockhart was among the pioneers of medical missionary work for the LMS. He travelled to Canton [now Guangzhou] in 1838, opening hospitals at Macao [now Macau] and Shanghai before opening a mission in Peking [now Beijing] in 1861. Lockhart left Beijing in 1864, although remained connected with the Society, serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1869. Lockhart obtained these prints during his time in Beijing, and they came into the LMS collection from Constance Patterson [née Brown] who had been given them by Lockhart's daughter, Mrs. Jervis.
Type
image
Format
albumen prints, 19.9 x 15 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m1532 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-CWM-15-10-079-004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m1532
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-CWM-15-10-079-004.jpg
Subject
London Missionary Society
Lockhart, William, 1811-1896
Portraits
Time Period
1861/1864
Place
Beijing
China
Source
SOAS/CWM/LMS/CH/PHOTO/13/079/004 [File]
Relation
Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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