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Illustrations of China and Its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented

John Thomson British, Scottish
1870s
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  • Title: Illustrations of China and Its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented
  • Artist: John Thomson (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1837–1921 London)
  • Date: 1870s
  • Medium: Collotypes
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971
  • Object Number: 1971.635.2
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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