Nankow pass, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19285i
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A steep rocky hillside with a section of fortified wall on the left hand side. Five white objects in the centre, four with conical vertical projections from cubic bases, one plain, smaller, cube in the centre

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Old Chinese war telegraph, Nankow Pass Bears Thomson's negative number: "514"

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19285i

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