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: Katya Knyazeva (avezink) wrote,
2020-01-07 16:37:00

Katya Knyazeva
avezink
2020-01-07 16:37:00

Winter scenes in old Shanghai

February 1940:

Scenic corner in Jessfield Park, in December 1929:

Roofs of Hongkew, with the train station in the background, also 1940:

Racecourse, with Foreign YMCA and the CUA building on the edge, in 1929:

View from a window over Peking Road, in 1931:

The Bund in 1931:

Nanking Road under a blizzard, in 1957:

Tags: 1920s, 1929, 1930s, 1940, 1950s, shanghai, snow, weather, winter

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