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Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 2(44)
Title:: Yuenfu Monastery. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the monastery building, perched in a niche on the cliff face, some thirty miles from Foochow.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 2(45)
Title:: The Abbot and monks of Kushan. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of the abbot and monks, seated in a courtyard of the monastery.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 3(1)
Title:: The Fukien Temple, Ningpo. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the temple courtyard towards one of the shrines: 'Among the chief attractions of the town of Ningpo, is the Tien-how-kung, or 'Queen of Heaven' Temple, the meeting house of the Fukien Guild. I have chosen this edifice as the frontispiece of t...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 3(3)
Title:: The Monastery of the Snowy Crevice. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the monastery, with mountains beyond.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 3(5)
Title:: A wayside shrine. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of figures posed in the outer porch of a temple: 'Skilfully modelled images, the size of life, are here seen guarding the portals, and my lean chair-bearers are also pictured gambling with an itinerant fruit-seller.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 3(15)
Title:: Kwanyin Temple, Puto Island. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a bridge towards monastery buildings on Putuo Island in the Zhou shan archipelago: 'Puto is one among a group of more than one hundred islands which stud the Chusan Archipelago. With the single exception of Puto, all the rest of these isles a...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1870-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 3(16)
Title:: Silver Island, River Yangtsze. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the water towards the island: '...We proceed for about 140 miles up the river [from Shanghai] to Chinkiang [Zhenjiang]. A few miles below that city we pass the mouth of the Grand Canal, perhaps the greatest of the public works in China ... Here i...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 3(17)
Title:: Golden Island, River Yangtsze. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Oval image. View looking across a stretch of open land on the riverbank, towards the monastery buildings and the Cishou Pagoda on Jin shan or Golden Island: 'Kin-Shan, or Golden Island, has attractions of its own no less remarkable than those of its sister islet bel...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871-1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 4(7)
Title:: Ruin of the Sisters' Chapel, Tientsin. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 4(36)
Title:: The Great Confucian Altar, Peking. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the altar in the Great Hall Hall of the Sage.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872
Extent:: 1 item

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