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

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19591i
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Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Two women looking at one another, the younger one with her hair in an elaborate plait, the other older with a plainer hairstyle. Both wear dark robes of coarse woven material. Mother and daughter [?]

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

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Boatwomen Canton, China Bears Thomson's negative number: "674"

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 19591i

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