The Bund, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1868/1871
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18692i
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View from pier or boat towards land looking towards the east. The street is known as the Praya or Des Voeux Road. The building on the right is the office of Jardine Matheson & Co. The one next door is the office of Dent & Co., their chief rival in the opium trade. Similar view to Thomson's negative number 43

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1868/1871.

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1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 in.)

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Hong Kong Bund Bears Thomson's negative number: "31"

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

References note

William Schupbach, Focusing on history in Hong Kong', Wellcome Library blog, 16 December 2013 https://wayback.archive-it.org/16107/20210313030558/http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2013/12/focusing-on-history-in-hong-kong/
Paisarn Piemmettawat, Siam through the lens of John Thomson 1865-66, including Angkor and coastal China, Bangkok: River Books, 2015, p. 143

Reference

Wellcome Collection 18692i

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