Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait, against a plain backdrop, of two Manchu women, apparently the same figures seen in print 33.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated studio portrait, against a plain backdrop, of a Manchu woman, attended by her maid, who is arranging her hair, and with a young child standing on the left.
Native professor of mathematics, and pupils. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Le-shen-lan, professor of mathematics in the Imperial College, Peking, and students, posed in a courtyard.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the ceremonial gateway or triumphal arch: 'This Pai-lau, or Chinese honorary portal, is erected at the gate of the Ta-ka-tien temple, which the Emperor visits when he prays for rain. Structures of this sort are very numerous in Peking. Many of them span ...