There is a rich archive comprising photographs taken by men connected to the British military presence in China, in peacetime and wartime, and both inside and outside zones of combat, from the beginning of the Second Opium War (1856) to the end of the Pacific War (1945). This is the case of the Ruxton Family Collection.
Colonel R.M.C. Ruxton was variously in the British ‘Weihaiwei’ or First Chinese Regiment, the Salt Gabelle (the Chinese state salt monopoly), and the Chinese Ministry of Finance, where he served as a Financial Advisor. The Ruxton Family Collection includes Cassels family photographs. The albums are now deposited at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. SOAS archive catalogue reference number: MS 381142. 346 images. HPC refs: Ru01, Ru02 and Ru-s.
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