Some of China's trouble-makers–"Boxer" prisoners captured and brought in by 6th U.S. Cavalry-Tientsin, China
- Title:
- Some of China's trouble-makers–"Boxer" prisoners captured and brought in by 6th U.S. Cavalry-Tientsin, China
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Asian Studies
Inequality and legacies of discrimination - Creator:
- Underwood & Underwood
Ricalton, James
- Creation Date:
- 1901
- ID Number:
- 85.080.478
- File Name:
- 85.080.478.jpg
- Work Type:
- stereograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
stereographs - Subject:
- China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
East Asia
Boxer Rebellion
prisoners - Measurement:
- 7.6 x 15.6 (Image) (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Monochromatic image of at least 30 men, male prisoners of the Boxer Rebellion, massed together, sitting on the ground in the hot sun. Most are shirtless, many have a queue hairstyle, and most look toward the camera. In the center foreground, a young man with a long braid, so thin his entire sternum is visible, looks directly into the camera with his arms hanging wide and resting on his knees. A group of guards stands against a wall in the background. On the verso is printed a lengthy, colonialist, racist text by Ricalton about those involved in the uprising, extracted from his 'China Through the Stereoscope' (1901). An image of the verso is included below the recto.
- Notes:
- One of three stereocards in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum collection related to the Boxer Rebellion, 1899–1901
- Cite As:
- Underwood & Underwood (American, active 1881–1940), Some of China's trouble-makers-"Boxer" prisoners captured and brought in by 6th U.S. Cavalry-Tientsin, China, 1901. Albumen print, stereocard, mount: 8.9 x 17.8 cm. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry D. Rosin, 85.080.478.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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