Formosa [Taiwan] (?). Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

  • John Thomson
Date:
1871
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19088i
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A well in a village, with a person standing on the wall of the well holding the ropes. A tree trunk sloping at 60 degrees. Water buckets on the ground

Publication/Creation

1871.

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph ; glass approximately 10.5 x 21.5 cm (4 x 8 in.)

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The Lang-an tree and native well ... Bears Thomson's negative number: "418"

Notes

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

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Wellcome Collection 19088i

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