The National Archives, London

Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart (1858-1937), British Commissioner of Weihaiwei (Weihai), at Jinan with provincial officials, 1903.

The National Archives at Kew, holds a great many original photographs. They are lodged within files, often quite hidden from view, or else they are kept in albums which came from various departments of state: the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, or the Works Department (which was responsible for the property portfolio of the Foreign Office, amongst other agencies). Quite why some of this material is here is not always clear to us. For example, why the Colonial Office Library held an album recording the 'Social Life of the Chinese Customs Service' is a bit perplexing.

The material includes a particularly rich set of albums documentating north China during the Boxer war, as well as materials about areas of Colonial Office activity in China: Hong Kong, and the leased territories in Kowloon and Weihaiwei. There are albums which record the consulates and other official buildings of the British establishment in China.

With the permission of the National Archives, we have digitised and are placing online all the material in the following files or albums. If you wish to seek permission to print of exhibit this material you must contact the National Archievs directly, through the National Archives Image Library. However, you are permitted to download, transmit or print this material for private, research or educational purposes.

To search for a single album below construct a search using our reference number, in the right-hand column. We list here only those materials that are already on the site.

TNA file number

File title

Our reference

CO 1069/421

China 1. Social life of Chinese Customs Service in Peking, 1889-1891

NA01

CO 1069/422

China 2. Boxer Rebellion 1900

NA02

CO 1069/423

China 3. Troops engaged in putting down Boxer Rebellion

NA03

CO 1069/424

China 4. European forces in Peking during Boxer Rebellion

NA04

CO 1069/425

China 5. Siege of Pekin. Boxer Rebellion 1900

NA05

CO 1069/426

China 6. Social activities of Chineses Customs staff in Canton 1910-

 

CO 1069/427

China 7. Street scenes in Peking 1920's 30's

 

CO 1069/431

China 11. Weihaiwei: general views 1903

 

CO 1069/432

China 12.Shantung and Kiachou 1903

NA07

CO 1069/433

China 13. Tomb of Confucius & Duke K'ung 1904

NA09

CO 1069/435

China 15.2 vols. Weihaiwei to Kiaochou 1906

 

CO 1069/444

Hong Kong 1. Views c. 1869

 

CO 1069/445

Hong Kong 2. HK & Macau typoon of 22 sept 1874

 

CO 1069/446

Hong Kong 3. Views of Hong Kong 1860 -1920

 

CO 1069/447

Hong Kong 4 Photo views 1890s

 

CO 1069/448

Hong Kong 5 Damage of the great storm 29/30 May 1889.

 

CO 1069/449

Hong Kong 6. Views of West River S.S. Wing Tong

 

CO 1069/450

Hong Kong 7A 60 Diamond Jubilee Pictures 1987

 

CO 1069/451

Hong Kong 8. Photos of New Territories

 

CO 1069/452

Hong Kong 9. Boundary commissioners delimiting New Territories 1898

 

CO 1069/453

Hong Kong 10. Kowloon & other parts of New Territories 1898

 

CO 1069/455

Hong Kong 12. Silver Jubilee dragon procession, Mau 1935

 

CO 1069/473

Hong Kong 30 Views of HK photos by Mee Cheung

 

CO 1069/474

Hong Kong 31. Snapshots 1930s

 

CO 1069/475

Hong Kong 32. Snapshots 1930s

 

CO 1069/918

Panorama of Hong Kong Harbour, c.1860

 

CO 1069/794

Misc. 20 Photos of emigrants from China to British Borneo 1920's

 

FO 233/214

British Cemetery Tsingtao

 

PRO 30/33/15/1

Diary with photos

 

PRO 30/33/15/2

Diary with photos - of Japan

 

WO 28/302

Reports on Boxer Rising with photos

NA06

Work 55/3

Peking and China consulates

 

Work 55/17

Peking and China consulates

 

Work 55/18

China consulates

 

 


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