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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1787.d.7, 3 Language Not applicable Subject People

1. 1787.d.7, 3(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(6)
Title:
Ningpo ladies. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length portrait of two women, showing their manner of dress and hairstyle.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 3(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(12)
Title:
Spinning cotton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a women operating 'a simple spinning machine driven by the foot...The picture has an additional attraction as showing the winter dress of a Shanghai mother and child of the labouring class...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. 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

4. 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

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

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