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11. 1787.d.7, 3(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(36)
Title:
Cave dwellings, I-chang Gorge, River Yangysze. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a small thatched house, built beneath an overhanging rock face.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

12. 1787.d.7, 3(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(47)
Title:
A mountain hut, Province of Hupeh. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a thatched hut, with two figures posed in front.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1871
Extent:
1 item

13. 1787.d.7, 3(15)

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

14. 1787.d.7, 3(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(9)
Title:
Shanghai Bund. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of European buildings, with an obelisk in the foreground: 'No. 9 shows the style of buildings at the southern extremity of the Bund, and the state of the ground fronting it in 1869.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

15. 1787.d.7, 3(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(26)
Title:
The wharf, Kiu-kiang. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a section of the waterfront of Jiujiang: 'The buildings in the background ... comprise the house and offices of Messrs. Russell and Co., a firm whose splendid steamers have contributed greatly to develope the traffic on the Yangtsze. In the foregro...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

16. 1787.d.7, 3(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(8)
Title:
Part of Shanghai Bund in 1872. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of European buildings on the Bund at Shanghai: 'No. 8 is a photograph executed in 1872, and designed to give some notion of the improvements to which reference has been made. At least two new buildings have been erected within the past four years, one...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

17. 1787.d.7, 3(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(22)
Title:
Interior of workshop, Nanking Arsenal. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography Interior of a workshop, 'where guns are turned, drilled, and rifled. A native workman may be seen at his post guiding a great foreign turning-lathe.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

18. 1787.d.7, 3(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(10)
Title:
The Lung-hwa-ta or 'Pagoda of the Dragon's Glory.' Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the 'Lung-hwa-ta, or 'Pagoda of the Dragon's Glory,' to the east of the village of Shi-ka-wei, on the banks of the Hwang-pu. This pagoda is one of the most ancient structures in the province, and the temple to which it belongs is a favourite nati...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1869
Extent:
1 item

19. 1787.d.7, 3(16)

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

20. 1787.d.7, 3(17)

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