Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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view Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

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Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Some of the Taku forts near Tianjin, north-eastern China. View across an open expanse of water to wall fortifications, taken in the early morning. A boat on the water to the left hand side. The sun reflecting from the water at the right hand side. Similar to Thomson's negative number 417, although a different viewpoint. The building is the same as in 417

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

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Taku, N. China, Taku forts Bears Thomson's negative number: "416"

References note

R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 71 (as Fort Provintia in Taiwanfu, later Tainan, in Taiwan, owing to earlier cataloguing as Takow in Taiwan)

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 19085i

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