Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length portrait of a Chinese woman, seated at a table and looking into the mirror of her cosmetics box, with another woman and a young girl posed behind her.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Three-quarter length seated portrait of a Chinese woman playing a guitar-like instrument, another young girl standing behind and to the left.
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of a Chinese compradore, 'or treasurer in a foreign mercantile house—a man who, by his legitimate savings and private trading speculations, has accumulated a large fortune.'
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing studio portrait of a Chinese maid, holding a large fan: 'This maid is a slave girl, bought in childhood for a trifling sum from her poor parents ... This girl has been reared in the bosom of the family, and trained to wait on the ...
A Canton boatwoman and child. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
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 girl, 'an unmarried woman, engaged with her family in the management of a cargo boat, used in the loading and unloading of ships. The cloth on her head is used as a protection from the sun...'