Interesting question.
I would look at early photographs by Beato of the Taku Forts after battle. Somewhere I have a book with these images, but my books are still in disarray since my move recently.
Beato was one of the first combat /propaganda photographers, and the first in China.
Today he has been excoriated by academics for "posing", or staging his shots for better effect.
That said, they are still a wonderful record of that time.
I will see what I can turn up, but it might not be for a few days.
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