Russian Church, Tientsin

Title : Russian Church, Tientsin

Topic : Warren Swire collection

Location : Tianjin

Date (start) : 1911

Estimated dates : 1911-1912

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Negative

Caption on support : Album cover: ‘1911-1912 E’, ‘China Miscellaneous Nos 38-96 Siberia & South 33 River 30 Shanghai Coast & Canton 13 [total] 127’. Album index: Folio (Sleeve) 39, one negative: Tientsin Bund & Russian Memorial

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: sw16-003. Khaki cloth Kodak Negative Album, 12 cm x 16 cm. 76 negatives (sized 92mm x 147mm). G.W. Swire wrote on the cover of the album: Nos 38-96 1911-1912 China Miscellaneous: Siberia & South 33, River 30, Shanghai Coast & Canton 13. The album was later labelled P2/X on the back cover. The Church of Our Saviour, built on the east bank of the Peiho river, in the Russian Concession. Memorial to Russian soldiers who died during the Boxer Rising.

Keywords : Swire;foreign;cannon;Tianjin