Coiffure of Swatow woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders right half-profile portrait of a young woman of Swatow, showing her elaborate hairstyle.
Coiffure of Swatow woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders left half-profile portrait of a woman of Swatow, showing her elaborate hairstyle.
Coiffure of Ningpo woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders left profile portrait of a woman displaying a very elaborate hairstyle, 'the chignon par excellence. The lady who wears it is of Ningpo extraction, and by profession a barber, who also makes wigs and chignons for sale.'
Coiffure of Shanghai woman. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders full face portrait of a Chinese woman, illustrating 'the quaint mode of dressing the hair in vogue among the women of Shanghai; these conceal their raven tresses beneath a velvet snood edged with white or pale blue, and ...
Portrait of a racing pony and groom: 'Most of these ponies are bred on the Mongolian plain, and are brought down during the winter months to Peking for sale. There they fetch from £5 to £50 apiece, and are then commonly transported by their purchasers to the ports of the coast, and re-sold at mu...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders full face portrait of a young Chinese man, 'whose natural shrewdness and capacity for business have helped him on to a successful mercantile career.'
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Oval image. Head-and-shoulders left half-profile portrait of an elderly Chinese man, 'a labourer, and, although over eighty, still earns a living as a porter'.
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the harbour towards the far bank, with shipping at anchor in the foreground. Kulangsu was the location of the original foreign settlement at Amoy: 'The island of Kulangsu, in the Fukien province, forms part of the western boundary of Amoy Harbour...
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the extensive range of buildings, constructed in the late 1860s: 'This Chinese arsenal, of naval training school, as I might more correctly describe it, is to me a very great proof of modern progress in the empire, and marks the dawn of a new era...