Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders full face portrait of an 'ordinary Chinese coolie, a fine specimen of the lower orders in China.'
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group portrait of five women, posed in front of a doorway and arranged to show details of clothing and hairstyle.
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).
A collector of printed scraps. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a scap collector, posed with his wooden rake: 'So great is the veneration of the Chinese for letters, that men such as our old friend here are employed to collect scraps of printed paper, which are afterwards burned before some shrine. That is...
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of two Cypriot men, one facing the camera, the other in profile: 'The two men represented in this picture were selected at random from a throng of peasants, such as may be seen any day in the streets of Larnaca...'