Upper Yangtze, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1869
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19566i
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A mounted man, wearing a plumed hat, in front of a building, another man standing beside the head of the horse, holding a staff. A third man standing in the entrance of a building in the background

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1869

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1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

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Military mandarin visiting outpost, China Bears Thomson's negative number: "661"

Notes

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

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Wellcome Collection 19566i

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