82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, largely undated captions.

Landscape format.

Landscape format. Near Queen's Statue: Hong Kong.

268 x 214 mm. View showing a public beheading about to take place. In the centre the executioner stands, his sword held above the neck of the kneeling man, while spectators form a semi-circle in the background. This print is reproduced in Worswick, p. 62 and there attributed to W. Saunders, active in Shanghai from the 1860s-80s.

269 x 206 mm. View looking across an open patch of grass towards the funeral procession, consisting of a line of hundreds of men carrying banners and placards. Towards the rear can be seen a group in white, presumably carrying the coffin.

And Chinese warship close to Shanghai.

In the courtyard of the five-storeyed pagoda.

Quarter-plate (landscape format). Imported from Galu.

269 x 207 mm. Studio portrait of a Chinese band consisting of a man and a woman playing banjo - like instruments and another man playing a flute.

Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].

Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].

Quarter-plate. Letting off big crackers, as before every Chinese house of importance. [Street scenes].

Photographic copy of the front page of a Chinese newspaper or broadsheet. Although the nature of the text is unknown, the cartoons clearly imply an anti-western and anti-clerical bias.

Photographic copy of the front page of a Chinese newspaper or broadsheet. Although the nature of the text is unknown, the cartoons clearly imply an anti-western and anti-clerical bias.

Photographic copy of the front page of a Chinese newspaper or broadsheet. Although the nature of the text is unknown, the cartoons clearly imply an anti-western and anti-clerical bias.

268 x 204 mm. View looking towards an unidentified pagoda at the summit of a hill, with a Chinese man seated on a wall in the foreground. The photograph is signed in the negative in Chinese script.

[Showing back of policeman in corridor].

[Blurred view of policeman].

269 x 207 mm. View showing a small wooden fishing boat in the shallows of a river. The net is suspended over the bows of the boat on two curved roads.

70 x 200 mm. View showing a large class of Chinese pupils seated at tables in the open air in front of the unidentified school buildings. These young girls appear to be engaged in some sort of sewing activity.

179 x 227 mm. Full length portrait of a raggedly dressed street vendor, carrying a tattered umbrella and a basket of foodstuff.

Showing Dr David Grant and his hospital assistants. Dr David Grant was the first medical missionary and was single-handed for many years from his arrival in 1880. He was invalided in 1894, when Paton took over. His devotion to duty for fourteen years permanently impaired his health, and he died in Inverness in July 1907, Edward Band, ‘Working his purpose out: the history of the English Presbyterian Mission, 1847-1947' (London, 1948), pp. 136-7, 301, 304-5.

Quarter-plate (landscape format). [Ornate Chinese buildings in the foreground with simpler buildings in the far right].

Open air theatre: Weihaiwei. [Open air theatre built on platform and with tiled roof over it with carved dragons. Players rather in the shade].