A Canton boatwoman and child. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
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.
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.
Four heads [23-26], types of the labouring classes. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...'
Jui-lin, Governor-General of the two Kwang provinces. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, seated beside a small table, of Jui-lin, 'the governor-general (Jui-lin) of the provinces of Kwantung-tung and Kwang-si, familiarly called the viceroy of Canton, from the locality in which his residence is situated...He is at present about sixty...
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 ...