Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length portrait of a Chinese woman, seated at a table and looking into the mirror of her cosmetics box, with another woman and a young girl posed behind her.
A Canton boatwoman and child. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Half-length porfile portrait of a Chinese woman, a baby carried across her back on a sling: 'The old woman in the photograph is the grandmother living with her son's family in the boat: she still works cheerfully at the oar to help the domestic earnin...
Tea picking in Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of four women, seated at a table in the open, sorting tea: 'Black teas, after being partially dried in the sun, and slightly fired, are rolled either by the palm of the hand on a flat tray, or by the foot in a hempen bag. They are scorched in...
Four heads [23-26], types of the labouring classes. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Half-length of a young girl, 'an unmarried woman, engaged with her family in the management of a cargo boat, used in the loading and unloading of ships. The cloth on her head is used as a protection from the sun...'