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032-003228218 Language Not applicable Subject Clothing and Dress

1. 1787.d.7, 1(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(10)
Title:
Boat girls. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Three-quarter length portrait of two girls, 'the two daughters of a respectable boating family.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 1(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(22)
Title:
The toilet. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length portrait of a Chinese woman, seated at a table and looking into the mirror of her cosmetics box, with another woman and a young girl posed behind her.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.7, 1(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(30)
Title:
A Canton lady. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing right profile portrait of a Chinese woman.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

4. 1787.d.7, 1(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(12)
Title:
Musicians. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Three-quarter length seated portrait of a Chinese woman playing a guitar-like instrument, another young girl standing behind and to the left.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

5. 1787.d.7, 1(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(13)
Title:
Musicians. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated portrait of a man and a woman, playing a violin- and a guitar-like instrument.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

6. 1787.d.7, 1(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(46)
Title:
Cantonese gentlemen. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of a Chinese government official, 'a mandarin of the sixth grade.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

7. 1787.d.7, 1(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(47)
Title:
Cantonese gentlemen. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of a Chinese compradore, 'or treasurer in a foreign mercantile house—a man who, by his legitimate savings and private trading speculations, has accumulated a large fortune.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

8. 1787.d.7, 1(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(31)
Title:
The lady's maid. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing studio portrait of a Chinese maid, holding a large fan: 'This maid is a slave girl, bought in childhood for a trifling sum from her poor parents ... This girl has been reared in the bosom of the family, and trained to wait on the ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

9. 1787.d.7, 1(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(11)
Title:
A Canton boatwoman and child. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Half-length porfile portrait of a Chinese woman, a baby carried across her back on a sling: 'The old woman in the photograph is the grandmother living with her son's family in the boat: she still works cheerfully at the oar to help the domestic earnin...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

10. 1787.d.7, 1(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(26)
Title:
Four heads [23-26], types of the labouring classes. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Half-length of a young girl, 'an unmarried woman, engaged with her family in the management of a cargo boat, used in the loading and unloading of ships. The cloth on her head is used as a protection from the sun...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

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