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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Hotel des Colonies' first owner Alexandre Seisson I'm researching Hotel des Colonies 密采里饭店 in the French Concession, and came across this beautiful photo of its first owner Alexandre Seisson and…
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Old photos of Shanghai at Getty Museum "Owning" a collection by pinning all locations on the map is quite a nerdy pleasure. Here are the wonderful offerings at Getty Museum:…
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Ethnographer's plight (1874) Although the memoir of Pavel Piasetski that describes his visit to China in 1874–1875 has been translated into English, the translation…
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