Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view looking across the town from a neighbouring hillside, with buildings of the foreign settlement in the foreground.
Ruin of the Sisters' Chapel, Tientsin. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the interior of the ruined church. Captions for prints 7 and 8 have been inadvertently transposed: 'No. 7 represents a group of Tien-tsin labourers, as I found them engaged in removing the debris from the Chapel of the Sisters of Mercy, who ha...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of labourers, posed among the ruins of the Chapel of the Sisters of Mercy at Tientsin. Captions for prints 7 and 8 have been inadvertantly transposed (see note at print 7).
Entrance to the Kwo-tsze-keen, or National University, Peking. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View, framed by a stone archway in the foreground, looking across the court towards the Pi-yung-kung, or Hall of the Classics.
A Mandarin's house, Peking. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the facade of the two storey house, with the owner, 'Mr Yang, a gentleman enormously rich, and holding an official rank in Peking,' seated in front of the entrance and with other members of his household posed on the verandah above.
Reception room in a mandarin's house [Beijing]. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the interior of Mr Yang's house in Beijing (see also prints 12 and 14), looking towards the window, in front of which a figure is seated.
An inner court in a mandarin's house [Beijing]. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the courtyard towards part of the house belonging to Mr Yang (see also prints 12-13), with plants and a small bridge in the foreground.