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John Thomson

Front of Kwan-Yin Temple, Hong-Kong; A Mendicant Priest; A Street in Hong-Kong; Opium-Smoking in a Restaurant

c. 1868
Collotype, pl. IX from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
11.4 × 9.7 cm (4.5 × 3.8 in)

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