Hupeh province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
- John Thomson
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19435i
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Description
The adit to a coalmine, with timber pit props. A person [miner?] looking down the opening
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph
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A coalmine in Hoopeh XIX 5 x 4
Bears Thomson's negative number: "593"
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
References note
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, vol. III, XIX 42 "Coalmine"
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19435i
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