Three Chinese Ladies, Peking, Penchili province, China.

Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869. Three women beside a balcony, with their backs to the camera showing their hairstyles. One of them, sitting on the balcony railing, has artificially deformed feet.

Manchu ladies, Peking. Bears Thomson's negative number: "699"