Interior of tea-house, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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18745i
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view Interior of tea-house, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

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Interior of tea-house, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1868/1871. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A tea-house [?] with two women and two men seated at a table, a boy bringing tea [?] on the left

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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Chinese interior Bears Thomson's negative number: "60"

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 18745i

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