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  • Fukien province, China: women and children outside a school (?). Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Hong Kong: a mendicant priest. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Hong Kong: a mendicant priest. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Henry Addington as a medical practitioner bleeding the exhausted John Bull, assisted by other politicians; representing Britain's strength being sapped by nepotism in politics and by war with Napoleon. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1803.
  • Two devils in a laboratory produce statutes with the help of a genie; showing the repressive nature of the government of France under Louis-Philippe, especially concerning the freedom of the press. Lithograph by E. Le Poittevin, 1831.
  • Nigerian porters carrying gun parts across the Benue river in a British expedition to suppress slavery. Wood engraving after Morgan, 1894.