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.'
Headdress of Cantonese girl. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders full face portrait of 'a young Cantonese girl of the middle class wearing a head-dress which consists of an embroidered belt of satin, ornamented with artificial flowers, and kingfishers' feathers, and fringed with fine ...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders right profile portrait of a young woman, wearing a head scarf, 'the covering worn by women of Southern China during the winter months.'
Coiffure of Swatow woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders right half-profile portrait of a young woman of Swatow, showing her elaborate hairstyle.
Coiffure of Swatow woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders left half-profile portrait of a woman of Swatow, showing her elaborate hairstyle.
Coiffure of Ningpo woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders left profile portrait of a woman displaying a very elaborate hairstyle, 'the chignon par excellence. The lady who wears it is of Ningpo extraction, and by profession a barber, who also makes wigs and chignons for sale.'
Coiffure of Shanghai woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders full face portrait of a Chinese woman, illustrating 'the quaint mode of dressing the hair in vogue among the women of Shanghai; these conceal their raven tresses beneath a velvet snood edged with white or pale blue, and ...