Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1870
- Reference:
- 19428i
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Description
View of a tea plantation, with two people picking leaves in the foreground
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1870
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1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph
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Tea
Bears Thomson's negative number: "590"
References note
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, 1873-4, I, XIX, 40
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 19428i
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