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Northern Chinese Merchants, Winter Costume by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

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Northern Chinese Merchants, Winter Costume

Northern Chinese Merchants, Winter Costume

Northern Chinese Merchants, Winter Costume

1865

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: 13.7 × 18.7 cm (5 3/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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