Part of a set of mounted prints of places and people in China (and on the journey there from India) from Ralph Wardlaw Thompson [and possibly taken or acquired during his deputation, March - June 1883]

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. Peo...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/15/10/01/003 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: c.1870 - June 1883
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.15.10.01.003
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/China/Photographs/Box 1
callnumber CWM/LMS/15/10/01/003
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/15/10/01/003
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/15/10/01/003
prefix_number 003
scb_previous_numbers Numbered 1-83 (with gaps in the sequence)
title Part of a set of mounted prints of places and people in China (and on the journey there from India) from Ralph Wardlaw Thompson [and possibly taken or acquired during his deputation, March - June 1883]
scb_date_creation c.1870 - June 1883
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 76 mounted sepia prints (in 4 wallets, parts A, B, C, and D)
format Archive
description 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]
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright probably expired
scb_file_number 3
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0015.0010.0001.00003

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