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...
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.'
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...'
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.'
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.