Smoking opium - a posed tableau

Smoking opium - a posed tableau

Identifier

UB01-04

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: UB01-04. From an album held in University of Bristol Library, Special Collections (ref: DM2520/1). A tableau posed in a photographer’s studio, which might have been in Hong Kong. The man sitting on the left is holding a tobacco pipe.

Caption in album or on mount

Chinese opium smokers.

Estimated Date

1880-1890

Dimensions

222mm x 265mm

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections