Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view looking across the town from a neighbouring hillside, with buildings of the foreign settlement in the foreground.
Ruin of the Sisters' Chapel, Tientsin. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
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).
Entrance to the Kwo-tsze-keen, or National University, Peking. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View, framed by a stone archway in the foreground, looking across the court towards the Pi-yung-kung, or Hall of the Classics.