Illustrations from British historical newspapers

The China Telegraph Expedition

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Execution of a Chinese criminal

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Muster of English volunteers in the Public Gardens, Shanghai

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Life in China - Part IX. Travelling in a mule litter - a mountain pass

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Life in China - Part I. Death in the cage. Conveying prisoners to the lock-up. Coolies. A mendicant. The rain-coat. Convicts

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Life in China - Part I. The feast of lanterns

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Life in China - Part II. The lesson. A street barber. A street stall. Monks with hand-furnaces

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Life in China - Part III. A street fortune-teller. A Pekinese auction. A wayside restaurant

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Sketches of life in China , XIV. A gambling house at Macao

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Life in China - Part IV. Mode of dressing the hair in China. A Chinese buffalo cart.

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Life in China - Part V. A wedding ceremony

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Life in China - Part VII. A Chinese artist. Bedroom in a Chinese inn

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Life in China - Part VIII. Fortune-telling with a tame bird. Exterior of a Chinese inn

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Life in China - Part XI. The Chinese cangue. A herb doctor. On board a trading junk - setting sail

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Life in China - Part XII. A Mandarin receiving a visitor

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Life in China, XVI. The Foreign Office, Peking

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Reorganising the Chinese Navy - on board the training ship 'Kein-wei

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Starting the first railway train in China at Shanghai - opening of the Woosung Line to Kungwang

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Going to the Shanghai 'Derby

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Dr. Lansdell's journey through Chinese Central Asia - a mud-stream after an earthquake

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The late Hon. Ah-hoh-kay Whampoa, C.M.G., member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements, and his grandchildren. The threatened Russo-Chinese war - Chinese officers returning to their own land from service in foreign navies

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China - sketches of life and character. A licensed beggar. An itinerant tinker. Schoolmaster expounding the doctrines of Confucius. Reinforcements for the Kuldja Army resting at a tea-house. Boys whipping for dragon-flies at Pekin. A chess party

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China - sketches of life and character, II. Canoeing on the lotus lakes. Chinese sanpan. A summer night in Shanghai. A street story-teller. A Chinese dinner party.

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New Year's Day in China

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