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1. 1787.d.7, 3

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3
Title:
Illustrations of China and its people. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented...In four volumes. Volume III. Photographer(s): Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. 1874. Folio, quarter leather and red cloth binding, measuring 475 x 360 mm, with original brown cloth and gilt upper board laid down on front endpaper; unpaginated. This volume contains 24 plates, with ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868-1872
Extent:
51 items

2. 1787.d.7, 3(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(19)
Title:
Nanking. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view, looking towards the city walls, 'from a hill outside the southern gate. The wall, it will be perceived, is of great height here, in some places seventy feet, and thirty feet at its base. Very prominent among the groups of buildings seen above...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 3(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(42)
Title:
Coal mine. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View of the entrance to mine.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

4. 1787.d.7, 3(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(46)
Title:
Coolie and creel, Szechuan. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a Chinese labourer, carrying a load slung on his back.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

5. 1787.d.7, 3(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(43)
Title:
Making fuel. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography Portrait of a group of children at work: 'The young children manufacture fuel. This fuel is made by mixing the coal, which here is of inferior quality, with water, then casting it in moulds and drying it in the sun.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

6. 1787.d.7, 3(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(41)
Title:
Natives. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of a Chinese man seated at the entrance to a restaurant, with two pigs in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

7. 1787.d.7, 3(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(27)
Title:
Sawyers at work. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of two Chinese sawyers operating a doubled-handled saw.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

8. 1787.d.7, 3(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(29)
Title:
Ruins at Tai-ping-koong. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the roadway towards two towers at Tai-ping koong, 'ten miles from Kiu-kiang, in the hill country behind that town ... The two towers shown in this picture are unlike anything I have met with elsewhere in China. They are said to be the ruins of a B...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

9. 1787.d.7, 3(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(30)
Title:
Hankow (native town). Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking over Hankou from a neighbouring hillside, with the Yangtsze in the left background.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

10. 1787.d.7, 3(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(45)
Title:
Drying fuel. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View looking down onto blocks of fuel, made by mixing coal with water, with the Yangtze in the background. See also print 43.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

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