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Mounts have numbers on them; some are rephotographed prints dating from before Thompson's deputation (prints of image and mount); some were lent to a "Missionary Loan Exhibition" in Norwich [England] by Thompson. Groups include: Chinese peasant's family; prisoners in Shanghai; Chinese gentlemen. People include: a Chinese hawker; itinerant cooks with their stall in Shanghai; Burmese weavers; "Mohammedan", Penang; a Chinese doctor; opium smokers. Activities featured include: fishing. Places or buildings featured include: street, waterfall, house of Chinese merchant, and "native house", Penang [Malaya]; Hotel d'Europe, Cathedral, Tanjong Paggar wharfs, view from Mount Palmer, Raffles Square, Singapore Botanical Gardens, Government House (from Fort Canning), and Campong [Kampong] Buggis, Singapore; the race course at Happy Valley, public gardens, and the harbour, Hong Kong; examination hall, the river, Shameen Episcopal Church, street scene, five-storied pagoda, and Temple of the 500 Genii, Canton [Guangzhou]; Fung Chui (lucky stone), Amoy [Xiamen]; East Gate, tea gardens (including restaurant), Chinese Custom House, the Bund, and pagoda and temple near the city, Shanghai; ?Chinkiang [Zhenjiang] and Golden Island pagoda; Hukou (mouth of Poyang Lake); Kiukiang [Jiujiang] pagodas; island in the Yangtze River [Chang]; Hankow [Hankou] (Bund), Wuchang, Hanyang [Wuhan]; Tartar City, Central South Gate, observatory, examination hall, Hatta-men Street, Emperor's Lecture Hall (Hall of the Classics), marble "pailou" in front of the Dalai Lama's tomb, altar of heaven, and Wan Shu Shan (including pavilions), Peking [Beijing]; "Chinese official building"; "Chinese courtyard". Also includes: boats, including junks, sampans, and a houseboat; bronze lion; "ladies' brougham"; wheelbarrow. [Photographers include: John Thomson]
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