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[Portraits of a Chinese man selling vegetables, a woman and child beggar, a woman from Macau, and a bureaucrat (Mandarin)]

[Portraits of a Chinese man selling vegetables, a woman and child beggar, a woman from Macau, and a bureaucrat (Mandarin)]

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Captions on front of item: "Crying vegetables" (upper left); "Beggars" (upper right); "Native Macao" (lower left); and "Mandarins" (lower right).
Captions on back of item: "Crying vegetables" (upper left); [no caption] (upper right); [no caption] (lower left); and "Civil officer" (lower right).
Photograph taken by John Thomson in Shanghai, 1870-72. (Source: Regine Thiriez, 2009)
In album: Japanese and Chinese portraits, [p. 40].

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Date

01/01/1870
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Contributors

Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921, photographer
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Location

Pudong (Shanghai, China)31.23944, 121.50389
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Library of Congress
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