Haihow, Hainan Island, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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18831i
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Mostly sea and sky. Two forts at the horizon line, one either side of the harbour mouth, a few ships

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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Entrance to Haihow harbour, island of Hainan (French) Kwangtung Province. Entrance to Haihow, the new port in Hainan Bears Thomson's negative number: "284"

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

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, pl XII, "Hoi-how, the proposed new Treaty Port, Island of Hainan"

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Wellcome Collection 18831i

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