Genre: Architectural Photography View of the ceremonial gateway or triumphal arch: 'This Pai-lau, or Chinese honorary portal, is erected at the gate of the Ta-ka-tien temple, which the Emperor visits when he prays for rain. Structures of this sort are very numerous in Peking. Many of them span ...
Native professor of mathematics, and pupils. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Le-shen-lan, professor of mathematics in the Imperial College, Peking, and students, posed in a courtyard.
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...
A Pekingese chiropodist. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene, with a chiropodist attending to his customer's feet, with an onlooker leaning over the half-door behind.
A Pekingese peep-show. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene, with a group gathered round a peep-show apparatus: 'The peep-show also ... enjoys a large share of public favour. It is fitted with a series of lenses in front, through which the eye of the spectator beholds the wonders of the world. For...
A Pekingese costermonger. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene in Beijing, showing a vegetable seller calling his wares: 'This man carries his shop on his shoulders; and we see him here informing the dwellers in a narrow lane that he has brought to their doors the choicest grapes of the season. When ...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length standing portrait of a Manchu archer, posed against a plain backdrop in the act of drawing his bow.