Pekin Collection

WW1 - Pekin Camp, Camp for Chinese Labour Corps, Mont Kemmel
WW1 - Pekin Camp - Camp for The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front. The camp was near The Kemmelberg (also known as Kemmel Hill or Mont Kemmel), Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium

Japanese bantams, black bantams and Pekin bantams. Mrs. Woodcocks Japanese white bantams, first prize at Crystal Palace 1872. E. Cambridges black bantams, cup winner at Bristol 1873. H. B

Beijing China probably 1920s

Mayfair Hotel and Hampton Court, Kings Cross - Sydney
Elizabeth Place Building, Mayfair Hotel and Hampton Court Hotel, Kings Cross - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Date: 1937

Duckweed
Watercolour paintings of three American Pekin ducks swimming in a circular motion on duckweed covered water. Date: circa 1930

CHINA. THE BOXER REBELLION
China. The Boxer Rebellion. Siege of Peking (14th and 15th August 1900). Engraving. Date: 1900

Gold-laced bantam and silver-laced bantam cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Bred by Matthew Leno and winner of first prizes at Crystal Palace and Birmingham 1871

Woman in fine wool suit with striped pekin-silk
Woman in fine wool green suit with striped pekin-silk taffeta tunic. Veste de drap fin sur jupe de meme a tunique de taffetas pekine

Woman in gaberdine dress with hand-embroidered frills, sitting on a chaise longue. Robe de gabardine a volants brodes a la main

Woman in blue and yellow striped pekin silk satin dress with nainsook cotton frills. Robe de satin pekine a volants de nansouk

Girl in dress of blue floral crepe du chine
Interior scene with mother and children, and girl in dress of blue floral crepe du chine. Robe de petite fille en crepe du chine bleu fleuri

Distributing the Pekin Gazette
Scenes in China. Distributing the Pekin Gazette. 1873

Articles in the Chinese Exhibition at Crystal Palace, 1865
Precious objects brought from the Emperor of Chinas Summer Palace, near Pekin, displayed at the Chinese Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1865

Peking Observatory
Chinese armillary sphere of the 13th century outside the Peking observatory Date: 1888

Steam train on Pekin to Tientsin route, China
Steam train on the Pekin (Peking, Beijing) to Tientsin (Tianjin) route, China. Date: circa 1900

The Imperial Palace, Peking, 1873
The Chinese Imperial Marriage: the Imperial Palace, Pekin. Arrangements for the marriage of the young Emperor of China, Tongzhi (1856-1875) of the Qing Dynasty, on 16th October 1872. Date: 1872

The De Dion Bouton Stand at the Decennale de L Automobile, Paris, France. The cars on display competed in the Peking to Paris motor race, an automobile race, originally held in 1907

Chinese imperial marriage at Pekin, 1872
The Chinese imperial marriage at Pekin: horses and camels presented to the emperor, how the Chinese saw the bridal procession, led horses in the bridal procession

Scene outside a city gate, Beijing (Peking), China. Date: 1898

Japan - Street scene, Peking (Beijing)
Lantern slide of Street scene, Pekin. Coloured slide shows people in street seeling items.. Part of Box 157 Japan, Boswell Collection, slide no. 38 Date: circa 1890s

Peking city wall
A city wall (and watchtower?) of Peking (now Beijing), China, around 1911. Date: C.1911

A street in Peking
A street scene in Peking (now Beijing) in China. Date: C.1911

Forbidden City, Pekin
The Forbidden City (the Chinese imperial palace) in Peking (now Beijing) in China. Date: c.1910

Charles Cousin-Montauban
CHARLES GUILLAUME MARIE APOLLINAIRE ANTOINE COUSIN- MONTAUBAN, comte de Palikao - French military commander, took Pekin 1860, offered but refused dictatorship 1870. Date: 1796 - 1878

Grand Hotel de Pekin - Beijing, China Date: circa 1910s

Polo, Marco (1254-1324). Venetian traveller. Book of World Wonders, manuscript edition in French (14th c.). The city of Pekin

The fall of the Pekin castle, the hostile army being beaten away from the imperial castle by the allied armies. Print shows the allied armies advancing toward the Boxer forces outside the imperial

British Legation in Peking
Front of the British Legation at Pekin after the Boxer rising but previous to World War One. circa 1911

Yuan Chi Kai, Chinese President, with diplomatic corps
Yuan Chi Kai (or Shikai) (1859-1916), President of the Republic of China, with members of the diplomatic corps at Peking. Date: circa 1913

Landing opium from the Pekin at Hong Kong
Men landing opium at Hong Kong from the Pekin Date: 1857

The Pekin Restaurant, New York
The Pekin Restaurant, Broadway at 47th Street, New York Date: 1920s

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