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Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. 1837-1921.
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- 1981
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Credit: Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
Credit: Wellcome Collection.
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Two young men and a girl standing in the doorway of a brick building. Large baulks of wood on the left hand side
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph
Contributors
Lettering
Natives of Amoy 1871, Swatow natives, China
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
Publications note
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol II pl. XIV fig. 40 "Amoy men"
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 19745i
Lettering note
Bears Thomson's negative number: "743"
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