Kwanyin Temple, Puto Island. Photographer: Thomson, John
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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...
Foreign drilled troops. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group of Chinese soldiers at Ningpo (Ningbo) on parade, comprising 'a remnant of the 'Ever-victorious' Anglo-Chinese force who have been trained to European discipline and drill.'
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.'