Subject: Children / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 1(5)
Title:: A Chinese school-boy. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Three-quarter length standing portrait of a Chinese child, holding his school books.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 1(6)
Title:: A Chinese girl. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Three-quarter length seated portrait of a young Chinese girl.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 1(10)
Title:: Boat girls. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Three-quarter length portrait of two girls, 'the two daughters of a respectable boating family.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 1(11)
Title:: A Canton boatwoman and child. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 2(10)
Title:: Mode of carrying child. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Three-quarter length portrait of a Pepohoan woman of Formosa (Taiwan), carrying a baby in a cloth sling.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 2(20)
Title:: Cantonese boy. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders full face portrait of a Chinese boy 'of the upper or most highly educated class, the son of a distinguished civil officer of Canton.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 3(43)
Title:: Making fuel. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Industrial Photography Portrait of a group of children at work: 'The young children manufacture fuel. This fuel is made by mixing the coal, which here is of inferior quality, with water, then casting it in moulds and drying it in the sun.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1789.a.13, 2(94a)
Title:: Eine Niam-Niam-Mutter mit ihrem Kinde. Photographer: Buchta, Richard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a Zande woman, carrying her child in a sling wrapped round her body and posed in front of a thatched hut.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1879
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1789.a.13, 2(96a)
Title:: Akka-Mädchen. Photographer: Buchta, Richard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a young Baka girl.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1879
Extent:: 1 item

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