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Collection Reference Number GLC04546.096
From Archive Folder Collection of documents, photographs, and objects related to the Boxer Rebellion archive 
Title Receipt for Ah-Roong, Military Tailors, General and Outfitter
Date 06 October 1902
Author Brown, Walter T. Kendall (fl. 1899-1932)  
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description [Uninventoried]
Subjects Navy  Global History and Civics  Receipt  Merchants and Trade  
Place written Shanghai, China
Theme Naval & Maritime; Foreign Affairs; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information 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.The postal marks on the envelopes in this collection are very rare and valuable. Mail was handled through the Monocacy.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945