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Shui-Kow, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date
- 1981
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- 19983i
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Credit: Shui-Kow, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
A man with a long pigtail, wearing a hat, standing beside a narrow channel of split bamboo with water running in it. In a valley with misty mountain slopes in the distance
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
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Lettering
Shui Kow, river Min. Chinese bamboo water pipes
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
Lettering note
Bears no Thomson number, now numbered [xiv]
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 19983i
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