Photo of a Man Posing With What is Said to be a Bronze Dome From the Porcelain Pagoda Tower in Nanjing, China (1871)

 

Photo of a man posing with what is said to be a bronze dome from the Porcelain Pagoda tower in Nanjing, China, 1871. The tower had been destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion in 1856. Note the graffiti written on the dome and also the building rubble presumably from the tower scattered around it. Taken by Scottish photographer John Thomson. From a scan of the original glass negative.

Source: Wellcome Collection.

Photo of Gold Miners Posing in Their Camp in La Plata County, Colorado Territory (1874)

Photo of gold miners posing in their camp in La Plata County, Colorado Territory, 1874. Taken by photographer William Henry Jackson while he was a member of the Hayden Survey.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration.