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Groups include: British Legation group during the Siege of Peking [Boxer Rebellion], 1900; groups including [Annie] Cormack [nee Annie Henderson] and sons; village children and a toffee apple man, near Peking; missionaries and Chinese Christians, 1912. People include: [Samuel Evans] Meech, [John] Allardyce, [Clara] Goode, [Edith] Allardyce [nee Edith Goode], Dr [Lillie] Saville, and Bessie [?Allardyce]; Dr [?Ernest] Peill; [Bernard] Read, Rev. [Thomas Howard] Smith, Dr [Richard] Hill, [Myfanwy] Rowlands [later Myfanwy Bryant], [Katharine] Hill [nee Katharine Mossman], [Elizabeth] Lloyd, Mrs Cunning-Brown, [Frances] Stuckey [nee Frances Campbell], Mrs Dr Blaikie, Dr [Edward] Stuckey, Rev. [Thomas] Biggin, [?Gladys] Meech, Dr [John] Stenhouse, [Gwladys] Stenhouse [nee Gwladys Rees], Dr and Mrs Wheeler, [Georgina] Biggin [nee Georgina Smith], Dr [James] Cormack, Rev. [Evan] Bryant, Rev. [Alexander] King, William Hopkyn Rees, Revs Johnson and ?Glysleen (APM), G R Wilde, Rev. Steele, and Mrs and Dr Sheffield (ABC), Mr Edwards (YMCA), Dr and Miss Lowry (MEM), and Cheng Ching-yi; Mr Shields, [Margaret] Rees [nee Margaret Harrison], ?Mr and Mrs Mearns; Chang Ting Hwa and his wife; [Francis] Hawkins; Rev. [Ernest] Box. Events featured include: ordination of Mr Cheng, October 1910; meeting of Chinese and British officials. Activities featured include: bathing at Peitaiho [Beidaihe]; holiday homework under trees in the Temple of Heaven; children playing. Other places featured include: swimming pool on outskirts of Peking. Also includes: print of a sketch by E H Grimani of audience for Foreign Ministers (General Vlangaly, Low, Wade, Geoffroi, Ferguson, and Bismarck) with Emperor, Prince Kung, and Wen-siang; carriage in front of post office. Prints taken by or received from individuals including: Cheng San; Mr Evanwood; [Robert Kenneth] Evans; [Augustus] Cullen; Nancy Lapwood [nee Nancy Stuckey]; Y Yamamoto.
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Siege of Peking - in Mongol Market (adjoining British Legation), showing International Gun 'Our Betsy', [1900]; image of a 'Boxer with his drawn sword in his hand', [1900].
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