Swatow, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19877i
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Seven men [labourers?], six standing, one squatting, on a balcony, against a pierced balustrade. Other buildings and a scarp in the background. The same setting, and the same men, as Thomson's negative number 806
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph
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Swatow natives, China
Bears Thomson's negative number: "805"
Notes
This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19877i
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