Chefoo, Shantung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1870
Reference:
19366i
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Three-quarter view of a large colonial building with verandas, with a walled garden and lawn. Surrounded by a kind of shanty town of thatched shacks

Publication/Creation

1870

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

Lettering

Bears Thomson's negative number: "558"

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

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. IV, pl. III, no. 6, "Chefoo settlement"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19366i

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