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[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0081]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "British and American gunboats at Nanking on March 24th, laid down a barrage to protect a small band of foreigners who took refuge from riotous Cantonese soldiers on standard Oil Hill, Nanking."
Date: March 24, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0082]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Historic old Nanking, former capital of China and the City where Sun Yat-Sen first founded the provisional government of the Republic, was shattered and torn yesterday March 24 by shells from American and British warships."
Date: March 25, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0089]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "It is reported that the 120 Americans in Nanking have been escorted to safety, and are awaiting removal to the ships in the river."
Date: March 25, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0083]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "British and American gunboats at Nanking on March 25th opened fire and laid down a barrage to protect a small band of foreigners who took refuge from riotous Cantonese soldiers on Standard Oil Hill."
Date: March 24, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0090]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "reports from Shangri indicate that the first of the 120 American Missionaries who took refuge in the Nanking University from the rioting Chinese, had arrived at the docks on the Whangpoo River, where the American and British warships are standing by."
Date: March 25, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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