There is some severe watermarking, but it is still possible to enjoy the audacity of these lads attempting to row in a sampan along Route Cardinal Mercier, after a flooding rain in 1940. The Auto Palace is in the background.
A boat ride along Shanghai streets in 1940
There is some severe watermarking, but it is still possible to enjoy the audacity of these lads attempting to row in a sampan along Route Cardinal Mercier, after a flooding rain in 1940. The Auto Palace is in the background.
Posts from This Journal “shanghai” Tag
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Commercial Plan of Shanghai (1915) This wonderfully detailed plan of Shanghai (1915) is available in super high-res at UWM. It includes a bird's-eye view of the Chinese City:…
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Triangle Motors (1931–1949), the creation of Lazarus Zigalnitsky Some time ago I posted about auto services and garages in Shanghai. Today I was flipping through an issue of Le journal de Shanghai and came…
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The society ladies The twenty-year-old daughter of the jeweller Moisey Lipkovsky, Eva (second from left): "Pajamas for every occasion were worn at the recent…
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