Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.

1865

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in.)

Siamese woman Bangkok Bears Thomson's negative number: "613"

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

Wellcome Collection 19476i