1948: Russians seek refuge in South America

Posts from This Journal “1940s” Tag

• Nine minutes of bustling Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s

  A total of nine minutes of well-staged shots, showing Shanghai's bustling waterfront and city streets. The film is dated by 1947 (probably…

• 4,400 historic images of Shanghai mapped on PastVu

  Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of images from the latest hundred: Indian…

• This worldly Shanghai child... (1942)

  ...for whom violence is a daily routine. Cartoon by Frederic Schiff, published in 1942.