Customs staff during a meal at Nanking

Title : Customs staff during a meal at Nanking

Topic : Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Year : 1899-1903

Location : Unknown

Date (start) : 1899

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Paper

Caption on support : A.J. Commỹs F.A. Aglen Huber R.L. R.L.Warren R.F.C.H. L Talen E.B. Howell

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: he01-082. Photo from an album (UoB reference he01) kept in the School of Oriental and African Studies Archives, London (SOAS reference PP MS 82/13). Edward Butts Howell (1979-1952), IMCS/CMCS employee and plant collector, is sitting on the far right, facing away from the camera and holding a flower or plant. Indigofera howellii from NW Yunnan and NE Myanmar (Burma) is named after E.B. Howell.

Keywords : CMCS;Chinese;Maritime;Customs;Service;IMCS;Imperial;Maritime;Customs;Service;party;recreation;leisure;social;food;meal;alcohol;botany;Nanjing