Peasant, with cart drawn by oxen, Hennebon. Photographer: Taylor, H.
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Genre: Portrait Photography Stereoscopic view, a portrait of a Breton man posed with his ox-cart in the cobbled street in front of a shop. For Reeve's description of this photograph, see p. 188 of accompanying text volume.
The Valley of the Mole. Photographer: Howlett, Robert
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Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a wooden cart against a background of trees on the bank of the Mole. Technical note: 'Taken on collodion, September 3, 1855, cloudy; exposure, three minutes; developed with pyrogallic acid. Lens by Ross; focal length eighteen inches; diameter three and a ha...
By the Hsi Chih Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the city wall towards the massive gatehouse tower, with a cart on the road in the foreground: 'This gate...which is the northern one in the western wall of the Tartar city, is certainly imposing if not sublime. The make-up of the wall, t...
Through the Nan Hsi Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a cart and a laden mule passing through the arched gateway, 'the most western of the three gates in the south wall of the Chinese city...The picture helps us realize the intensity of the light; on emerging from that gate one is in open country, in ...