[Portraits of a Chinese women purchasing jewelry, women from Macau, people in a boat, and the "toutai" (magistrate) of Shanghai] with an attendant]

Captions on front of item: "Purchasing jewellry [i.e., jewelry]" (upper left); "Native of Macao" (upper right); "Group in a passenger boat" (lower left); and "Toutai of Shanghai" (lower right).

Captions on back of item: "Purchasing jewellry [i.e., jewelry]" (upper left); [no caption] (upper right); "Group in a passenger boat" (lower left); and "Toutai of Shanghai" (lower right).

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

In album: Japanese and Chinese portraits, [p. 47].

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