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131. 1787.d.7, 3(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(13)
Title:
The caingue punishment. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a kneeling man, wearing the caingue, a square wooden collar, with the wrong-doer's crime proclaimed on a card on the front of the board: 'The caingue...is one of the lighter punishments of China, inflicted for minor offences, such as petty...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

132. 1787.d.7, 3(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(14)
Title:
The cage punishment. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a of a criminal encased in a wooden framework, from which his neck projects, 'so constructed that the prisoner has the choice of either suspending himself by the neck to relieve his toes, which just touch the board, or of standing on his t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

133. 1787.d.7, 3(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(15)
Title:
Kwanyin Temple, Puto Island. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a bridge towards monastery buildings on Putuo Island in the Zhou shan archipelago: 'Puto is one among a group of more than one hundred islands which stud the Chusan Archipelago. With the single exception of Puto, all the rest of these isles a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

134. 1787.d.7, 3(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(16)
Title:
Silver Island, River Yangtsze. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the water towards the island: '...We proceed for about 140 miles up the river [from Shanghai] to Chinkiang [Zhenjiang]. A few miles below that city we pass the mouth of the Grand Canal, perhaps the greatest of the public works in China ... Here i...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871-1872
Extent:
1 item

135. 1787.d.7, 3(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(17)
Title:
Golden Island, River Yangtsze. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Oval image. View looking across a stretch of open land on the riverbank, towards the monastery buildings and the Cishou Pagoda on Jin shan or Golden Island: 'Kin-Shan, or Golden Island, has attractions of its own no less remarkable than those of its sister islet bel...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871-1872
Extent:
1 item

136. 1787.d.7, 3(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(18)
Title:
Scene in Nanking Arsenal. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two Chinese officers, posed with a workman among armaments of various sorts in the arsenal at Nanking (Nanjing): 'The Arsenal was built under the auspices of Li-hung-chang. It was the first of its kind in China, and stands near the site of...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

137. 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

138. 1787.d.7, 3(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(20)
Title:
The Ming Tombs, Nanking. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the stone warriors lining the approach to the Tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

139. 1787.d.7, 3(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(21)
Title:
Foreign drilled troops. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group of Chinese soldiers at Ningpo (Ningbo) on parade, comprising 'a remnant of the 'Ever-victorious' Anglo-Chinese force who have been trained to European discipline and drill.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

140. 1787.d.7, 3(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(22)
Title:
Interior of workshop, Nanking Arsenal. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography Interior of a workshop, 'where guns are turned, drilled, and rifled. A native workman may be seen at his post guiding a great foreign turning-lathe.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item