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Subject Street Scenes

21. 1787.d.7, 1(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 1(41)
Title:
Physic Street, Canton. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the narrow, paved street, lined with Chinese shop signs: 'Physic Street, or more correctly, Tsiang-Lan-Kiai (our Market Street), as the Chinese term it,—is one of the finest streets in Canton, and, with its varied array of brightly colou...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

22. 1787.d.7, 3(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(25)
Title:
Street groups, Kiu-kiang. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) A carefully arranged study, portraying various occupations being carried out at the roadside, including an itinerant soup-seller, a letter-writer, a barber and a wood-turner.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

23. 1787.d.7, 4(26)

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

24. 1787.d.7, 4(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(27)
Title:
A Pekingese peep-show. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene, with a group gathered round a peep-show apparatus: 'The peep-show also ... enjoys a large share of public favour. It is fitted with a series of lenses in front, through which the eye of the spectator beholds the wonders of the world. For...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

25. 1787.d.7, 4(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(28)
Title:
Dealers in curiosities. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene in Beijing, showing a group gathered to examine various pieces of metalware.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

26. 1787.d.7, 4(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 4(29)
Title:
A Pekingese costermonger. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene in Beijing, showing a vegetable seller calling his wares: 'This man carries his shop on his shoulders; and we see him here informing the dwellers in a narrow lane that he has brought to their doors the choicest grapes of the season. When ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 item

27. 1862.b.20(72)

Reference (shelfmark):
1862.b.20(72)
Title:
Jellalabad — the main street showing covered bazaar. Photographer: Burke, John
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Burke 75' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the main street of Jalalabad, with the shops of the bazaar lining either side and with a large number of shopkeepers and other onlookers posed for the photographer along the length of the ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1879
Extent:
1 item

28. 1899.l.15(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
1899.l.15(15)
Title:
Street view in Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed and dated 'Frith 1858' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along a Cairo street: 'Without any special object of historical interest, the accompanying view is extremely instructive, as illustrative of the picturesque ruins of Cairo. With the exceptio...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858
Extent:
1 item

29. 9771.h.7(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
9771.h.7(10)
Title:
Vista de la Calle del Commercio despues del incendio tomada desde la Plaza de Armas, — Bayamo. Photographer: Varela and Suarez
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events General view, looking along the street of fire-gutted buildings. A heavily retouched image.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

30. 10028.g.5(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
10028.g.5(2)
Title:
Street in Cairo. Photographer: Good, Frank Mason
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along a narrow street in Cairo, with the Al-Azhar Mosque at the far end. With accompanying letterpress by Francis Clement Naish. Prints 1 and 2 have been bound out of sequence.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865-1875
Extent:
1 item

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