Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
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19535i
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Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Men having a meal from many small dishes, in a large interior with many square columns. With servants crouching on the ground, mostly looking towards the camera. Large dishes heaped with more food [?] on the right hand side. An altar visible in the distance. Probably taken in Siam because of the costume of the servants

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

Buddhist priests in temple... Bears Thomson's negative number: "643"

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

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Wellcome Collection 19535i

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