Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1871
Reference:
19778i
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A group of nine people, five seated, four standing, outside a house with a thatched roof, structural bamboo poles set into the mud [?] walls

Publication/Creation

1871

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 25.5 x 30.5 cm (10 x 12 in.)

Lettering

Pepohoan natives, Formosa, China Bears Thomson's negative number: "759"

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 19778i

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