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  • Gate of the Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, London, surrounded by thatched domestic buildings. Engraving after W. Hollar.
  • Boarding houses for visitors to a local asylum for people with leprosy, next to the village shop; the buildings have tall, pointed thatched rooves. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Levuka, Fiji: the Government House, a long building with a thatched roof. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A man is thatching the roof of a cottage as a boy brings a bowl of water for the horses to drink. Lithograph after George Morland.
  • A bull resting in an enclosure outside a thatched cottage in England. Etching by R. Hills, 1802.
  • The village of Bolsheretsk in Kamchatka, with some of its inhabitants . Engraving by P. Benazech, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Farmyard, Bengal. Etching by William Hodges, 1786.
  • Malaya: houses of inhabitants on Penang Island. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.
  • Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.
  • Russo-Japanese War: rows of wounded soldiers in a temporary dressing station at Hsuchiakou, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing the wounded on foot and stretcher through Kaiping, China. Collotype, c. 1904.
  • Hupeh province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Six men and a woman drink and smoke round a table outside a country tavern, behind them children watch a woman pump water. Etching by J. Browne and engraving by W. Woollett, 1767, after C. Dusart.
  • Poah-be, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Poah-be, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Poah-be, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Poah-be, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Chefoo, Shantung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Chefoo, Shantung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Chefoo, Shantung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Above, puppets representing Falstaff with Mrs Page and Mrs Ford in 'The merry wives of Windsor'; below, a derelict rural thatched cottage in Hungerford. Lithograph after John Orlando Parry.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866.
  • Astronomy: observatories set up in the Nicobar Islands to photograph a solar eclipse, April 1875. Wood engraving, 1875.