Captioned "Flower (Pleasure) Boat at Shanghai."
Image from the 1870s book "The Earth delineated with pen and pencil: or, voyages, travels, and adventures all round the world" (archive.org)
Another one of those unrealistic expectations of Shanghai
Captioned "Flower (Pleasure) Boat at Shanghai."
Image from the 1870s book "The Earth delineated with pen and pencil: or, voyages, travels, and adventures all round the world" (archive.org)
Posts from This Journal “1870s” Tag
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What makes a girl unmarriageable?
Large feet! Source: Wellcome Collection.
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"She is guaranteed a virgin, never betrothed..." (1871)
Source: Wellcome Collection.
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John Thomson's photographs of Shanghai (1871)
...are generously presented at the Wellcome Collection. The clarity of the 150-year-old images is amazing: you can read all the names on the…
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