Subject: Manners and Customs - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 4(20)
Title:: Manchu female coiffure. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Half-length seated portrait of a Chinese woman. Captions for prints 19 and 20 have been inadvertently transposed.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 4(26)
Title:: A Pekingese chiropodist. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1787.d.7, 4(35)
Title:: Manchu toilet. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated studio portrait, against a plain backdrop, of a Manchu woman, attended by her maid, who is arranging her hair, and with a young child standing on the left.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1899.ccc.18, 2(17)
Title:: France. Vue prise au Bas-Meudon. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography A rural scene, showing a shepherd and his flock beside a small, tree-lined lake. Accompanying text signed, 'Challamel.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1840
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1899.ccc.18, 2(18)
Title:: France. Vue de Normandie. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across fields towards a house set at the edge of woodland. Accompanying text signed, 'Challamel.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1840
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 7701.h.1(18)
Title:: Panier en jonc, renfermant des gigots de mouton et de gazelle; des oies, une tête de veau, préparées et pour la plupart enveloppées de bandelettes...Le repas funèbre de la princesse Isimkheb. Photographer: Brugsch, Émile Charles Adalbert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of a rush basket containing wrapped items of meat, to be placed in the tomb for the funeral meal.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 7701.h.1(29)
Title:: Canopes de Isimkheb, Nessi-Ta-Neb-Asher, Ahmes-Nofert-Ari. Photographer: Brugsch, Émile Charles Adalbert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography View of three canopic vases, for holding the viscera of the deceased, with stoppers in the form of portrait heads.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49352(18)
Title:: [Portrait of a Japanese woman.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Arched top. Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of a young Japanese woman.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49352(19)
Title:: [Portrait of a Japanese woman.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Arched top. Half-length seated studio portrait of a young Japanese woman.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49352(20)
Title:: [Portrait of a Japanese woman, (?)preparing tea.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a Japanese woman, seated on a carpet, with tea making equipment in front of her.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

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