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John Thomson — Illustrations of China and Its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented

Illustrations of China and Its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented

A comprehensive photographic documentation of China and its people presented as a series of two hundred photographs with accompanying descriptive text. This ambitious project represents early ethnographic and travel photography.

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