CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

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Collection of press photographs taken during the 1927 Northern Expedition. The images show a National Revolution Army artillery team during February's advance on Shanghai, General Sun Chuanfang's retreating soldiers by Jessfield Railway Bridge, and Zhejiang troops. Four photographs concern American, Dutch, and British forces, part of the international coalition deployed to protect expatriate residents and businesses in Shanghai, and a fifth captures a Chinese man addressing a street crowd.Also present are two photographs (captioned "Chinese types") showing labourers, as well as a vernacular shot of a female Westerner serving coffee and biscuits to some Dutch marines.

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