A photograph entitled 'The Field Plough', taken by John Thomson, c. 1871. The photograph shows two Chinese farmers using an ox to plough their field.
A photograph entitled 'The Field Plough', taken by John Thomson, c. 1871.
The photograph shows two Chinese farmers using an ox to plough their field.
This photograph was published in the book, 'Foochow and the River Min' (1873), made by Thomson to document his travels up the River Min by boat from Fuzhou to Nanping, a distance of about 160 miles.
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1992-5063/56
- type:
- photograph
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
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