Guide to the Tientsin (Tianjin) China photographs Bernath Mss 488
Finding aid prepared by Special Collections staff, 2015.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
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2015 March 11
Title: Tientsin (Tianjin) China photographs
Identifier/Call Number: Bernath Mss 488
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
German
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet
(1 document box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-1906
Abstract: Photographs of Tientsin (Tianjin) plus a small panorama of Shanghai.
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[Identification of Item], Tientsin (Tianjin) China photographs, Bernath Mss 488. Department of Special Research Collections,
UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2015.
Photographs of Tientsin (Tianjin) plus a small panorama of Shanghai. Taken in the immediate aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion
the photographs in this extensive collection detail life and activities in the Foreign Concessions as well as in the old Chinese
City. The album evidently assembled by a German military officer, with an inscription "In memory of Cousin George, Breslau,
September 1906".
Tientsin views include a column of German soldiers at Taku Plaza, consecration of German Soldiers monument, an internment
of a German officer at the International cemetary [sic], Machine Gun Section Victoria Road, Mumm Street, Taku Road, Wilhelm
Street, Astor House Hotel and Gordon Hall in the British concession, Ruins from the 'troubles' of 1900, Chinese Match Factory
converted to German Barracks, Japanese Consulate, Railway Station and reception of senior officers, Race Day, Warehouses,
German business premises of Heinrich Schmidt, and Carl Wolff, house of a German General and consulate, Russian pontoon bridge
and Russian consulate, wedding of Brigadier General Petzel's daughter to Lieutenant Krapatschek. International concessions
are also detailed by portraits of a Sikh soldier and the two English soldiers, 'Bob & Jim', a British marching band, Russian
soldiers posed around the Gateway to the Russian 'Fort', views of Bastille Day celebrations in the French concession, the
arrival of the Commander of the Japanese troops, a German postal carriage with guards, hunting party, a group portrait of
a German military band with several Chinese sitters, and a meeting of High Mandarins with the representatives of the International
Consulates.
Studies of the strategically important Peiho River include Chinese Junks and coolies, merchant shipping, local ferry and fishing
boats, rafts and barges, and the German Torpedo boat S.90. One image shows a row of cannons captured from the Chinese in 1900.
Chinese city views include busy street scenes with labourers and vendors. Merchant shops show signs for boots; trades include
tailors, a picture seller, a painter and decorator, fast food sellers, rickshaw drivers, a money changer; there are various
palanquins and bearers, a wedding sedan chair, school children, an execution, Chinese girl with bound feet, Chinese Imperial
post, visiting Mandarins, Tongshan coal mining folk – and the Chinese employees of the Franz Scholz Photography Co.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photograph albums
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Pictorial works
Photographs
China -- Pictorial works
Franz Scholz Photography Co.
Box 1
Photographs of Tientsin (Tianjin) plus a small panorama of Shanghai circa 1900-1906