[Portraits of a Chinese policeman with prisoners, a person being carried in a sedan chair, a group of women and a barber]

Captions on front of item: "Policeman with prisoners" (upper left); "Chinese chair" (upper right); "Group of men" (lower left); and "Barber" (lower right).

Captions on back of item: [no caption] (upper left); "China chair" (upper right); "Group of Chinese women" (lower left); and [no caption] (lower right).

Photograph taken by John Thomson in Shanghai, 1870-72. (Source: Regine Thiriez, 2009)

In album: Japanese and Chinese portraits, [p. 42].

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