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

GLC04546.005

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GLC#
GLC04546.005-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
March 27, 1900
Author/Creator
Brown, Walter T., fl. 1900-1901
Title
to W. T. K. Brown
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
3 p. : , 57 items, photograph album
Primary time period
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Sub-Era
The Politics of Reform

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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