EU: Takow forts on the waterfront, John Thomson (1871)
1871 Tainan, Taiwan
Photographed by the Scottish photographer John Thomson during his 1871 expedition to Formosa, this image shows coastal fortifications along the waterfront near Tainan, Taiwan. Thomson's Formosa series remains among the earliest photographic documentation of the island's southern coast.
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