Foochow, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870/1871.

  • John Thomson
Date:
1981
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18905i
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A view of factory and storage areas from a hill. A tall chimney to the left, railway tracks visible in the centre beside industrial buildings of European pattern to the left. Many villas in the colonial style on the hill to the right

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Foochow Arsenal 1872 1871 Bears Thomson's negative number: "323"

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 18905i

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