Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19943i
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Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Two boys crouching down at the foot of some steps, another sitting on a bench. The steps are covered with floral tiles, the walls with carvings. Two European-style sculptural figures, a bearded male one on the left side of the steps, a female one on the right

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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Gate of Buddhist temple, Bangkok, Siam 24 Bears Thomson's negative number: "1102"

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

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Wellcome Collection 19943i

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