Peking : a historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest

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  Peking : a historical and intimate description of its chief places of interest

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  Peking Bureau

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  Three items which include a letter, a rough draft of the letter and a memo regarding asking the permission of Prime Minister Chou En-lai for the establishment of a Peking News Bureau.

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  P.M.S.S. [City of] Peking : general arrangement

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  The sheet shows a cutaway starboard profile and five decks of the vessel; the deck plans show passenger accommodations, along with the dining saloon, social hall, card room and other amenities. "P.M.S.S. Peking. General Arrangement"--title at the top of the drawing. "Scale 1/16" = 1 Foot"--scale given. "Case No. 361S Sheet No. 7159S"--lower right corner, stamped on original; numbers, in ms.; stamp and the case number are the similar to the one found on ephKMSP 006, indicating the origin of the drawing is Union Iron Works Co., San Francisco. "E2"--in lower right corner of the image. Unknown as to when the copy was made. "City of Peking"--on verso, in ms., in pencil. The City of Peking, built in 1874, was the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven steamer built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; she was chartered in 1898 by US Government as a troopship for Spanish-American War and sailed as part of group led by USS Charleston; laid up at San Francisco in 1908, she was broken up in 1910. Focus of item: City of Peking.

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  Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company's Steamer, "City of Peking."

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  Dimensions at left of the title; hull and engine builder at right. Above title, in small print: Donaldson Brothers, Five Points, New York. On verso is a name and adrees in ink, and a notation in pencil. Focus of item: City of Peking.

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  Peking the beautiful : comprising seventy photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China's northern capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes

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  The White brothers were missionaries in China. One of them was also the Art Director at the Signs of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai, and the author of this work.

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  What to see in England : a guide to places of historic interest, natural beauty or literary association / by Gordon Home

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  This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.

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