Kowloon, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19625i
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Description

A family eating a meal. Two men, one young, holding a bowl and chopsticks, the other older, seated at a table with two young children, a woman standing behind one of the children. Behind her a wall with a small square opening. Three cats sitting under the table and the rear of another at the lower left hand corner. More bowls and a large container on the table. The same as Thomson's negative number 689a, probably one half of a stereo pair

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Canton family, Kowloon Bears Thomson's negative number: "689"

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19625i

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