Hong Kong [?]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1869
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19990i
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Hong Kong [?]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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View showing one side of a street of shop buildings. Shop-signs and posters in Chinese and English. Large ornate building in the centre with balconies, painted decoration, coloured glass windows, and awnings. Two people standing in the foreground to the left, another in the background on the right

Publication/Creation

1869

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

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Lettering

Bears no Thomson number, now numbered [xviii]

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19990i

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