Photographic album (volume) - KCL Digital Collections

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Volume

Title:: Photographic album

Collection:: WOODS, Lt Col George Greville (1870-1947)

Archive reference:: WOODS_GG/2/2

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/woods-gg

Level of description:: Collection

Date of material:: 1904 -1905

Creator:: Woods, George Greville

Source collection title:: WOODS, Lt Col George Greville (1870-1947)

Extent:: 1 volume

Description (scope):: One of two photograph albums containing captioned photographs of historical Tientsin (nowadays Tianjin), a 1904 visit to Ku Ling hill station in the city of Kiukiang (nowadays Jiujiang, Hubei provence, China), and to the Yangtze River gorges in Yichang (Hubei, China) with Chinese local life-saving boats. Photographs of Kilkeel (County Down, Northern Ireland, UK), from 1905, and London (England, UK) are also included.

Archival history and notes:: Most photographs in this album are of landscapes in the Yangtze River area in China. Some of the photos were taken from mountains above the Yangtze River and its first gorge.

Custodial history:: Placed in the Centre by the family in 1997.

Copyright:: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.; King's College London Archives

Photograph

Title:: "Trackers at work at (?)"; "My K'ua tzu"

Archive reference:: WOODS_GG/2/2

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/woods-gg

Date of material:: s.d

Description:: Photograph of boat with workers ("trackers") and Woods' own boat with "trackkers" on board; also photograph of the Yansgte First Gorge, upper portion.

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