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...'
Tea picking in Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of four women, seated at a table in the open, sorting tea: 'Black teas, after being partially dried in the sun, and slightly fired, are rolled either by the palm of the hand on a flat tray, or by the foot in a hempen bag. They are scorched in...
Rolling scented caper and gunpowder teas. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men, supported by their arms from a beam, rolling bags of tea into large balls with their feet.
Weighing tea for exportation. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View showing tea being weighed on scales supported by sheerlegs, with a European figure seated in the foreground.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) 'A number of men may be seen during the tea season in front of the house, employed, as shown in the photograph, in picking, sampling, and sorting the tea, or in preparing the chests for its reception...'
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders left half-profile portrait of an elderly Chinese man, 'a labourer, and, although over eighty, still earns a living as a porter'.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders full face portrait of an 'ordinary Chinese coolie, a fine specimen of the lower orders in China.'
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of five women, posed in front of a doorway and arranged to show details of clothing and hairstyle.