Chefoo, Shantung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19367i
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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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1981
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1 photograph : photoprint
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Bears Thomson's negative number: "558"
References note
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. IV, pl. III, no. 6, "Chefoo settlement"
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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19367i
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