Bird's-eye view map of Shanghai (1939)

Posts from This Journal “1939” Tag

• +1 for C. H. Gonda: Doumer Theatre

  Charles Henry Gonda ( wiki), who designed the largest number of movie houses in Shanghai, was also the author of the conversion of Jimmy…

• Shanghai Street Directory 上海市行號路圖錄 (1940) – Int'l Settlement and French Concession

  Shanghai Street Directories 上海市行號路圖錄 for various years are offered for online viewing at the National Library of China 国家图书馆. Anyone can get an…

• Putin in Shanghai, c. 1940

  Here is Shanghai’s own Putin, or rather, Poutin, Trofim Fedorovich – Трофим Федорович Путин – born in Perm on 15th of April 1884…