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121. 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

122. 1787.d.7, 3(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(7)
Title:
Shanghai Bund in 1869. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the Shanghai waterfront, showing European business premises lining the Bund.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

123. 1787.d.7, 3(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(8)
Title:
Part of Shanghai Bund in 1872. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of European buildings on the Bund at Shanghai: 'No. 8 is a photograph executed in 1872, and designed to give some notion of the improvements to which reference has been made. At least two new buildings have been erected within the past four years, one...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

124. 1787.d.7, 3(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(9)
Title:
Shanghai Bund. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of European buildings, with an obelisk in the foreground: 'No. 9 shows the style of buildings at the southern extremity of the Bund, and the state of the ground fronting it in 1869.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

125. 1787.d.7, 3(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(10)
Title:
The Lung-hwa-ta or 'Pagoda of the Dragon's Glory.' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the 'Lung-hwa-ta, or 'Pagoda of the Dragon's Glory,' to the east of the village of Shi-ka-wei, on the banks of the Hwang-pu. This pagoda is one of the most ancient structures in the province, and the temple to which it belongs is a favourite nati...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

126. 1787.d.7, 3(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(11)
Title:
Shanghai wheel-barrows. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of a couple seated in a single-wheeled wooden barrow, pushed from behind by a labourer.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869-1872
Extent:
1 item

127. 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

128. 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

129. 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

130. 1787.d.7, 3(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(15)
Title:
Kwanyin Temple, Puto Island. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a bridge towards monastery buildings on Putuo Island in the Zhou shan archipelago: 'Puto is one among a group of more than one hundred islands which stud the Chusan Archipelago. With the single exception of Puto, all the rest of these isles a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item