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
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1870
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1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion
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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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