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 man of the labouring classes, 'stripped to the waist, as is his wont during the hours of toil...'
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...'
Hoi-How, the proposed new treaty port, island of Hainan. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the two forts protecting the approach to Hoihow (Haikou), on the north coast of the island of Hainan.
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) Group portrait of Chinese soldiers, gathered in a courtyard or garden, with a pagoda rising in the background: 'The reader cannot fail to be struck with the fine manly build and soldierly appearance of the Tartar artillery-men shown in the photograph....