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Brown, Walter T., fl. 1900-1901 to W. T. K. Brown

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04546.005 Author/Creator: Brown, Walter T., fl. 1900-1901 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 27 March 1900 Pagination: 3 p. : , 57 items, photograph album Order a Copy

Twenty six mounted photographs, an album containing twenty nine mounted photographs, one unmounted photograph, and one negative. Photographs taken in China around the time of the Boxer Rebellion. Brown served as Paymaster Yeoman on the USS Monocacy during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The Monocacy had served in Chinese waters for nearly 30 years, and was ordered to recapture the forts at Taku on 11 June 1900. He was trapped with the US Marines and multinational force in Tientsin.

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