
Photo by Frederik G. Clapp., AGSL Collections at UWM. See it on the map.
Quote from Le Corbusier (on preparing to visit Constantinople in 1911) found in Zeynep Çelik, “Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism” (1992).
DESTITUTE RUSSIAN EXILES HERE, HUNGRY AND RAGGED Barefoot youngsters and scantily clad elders throng $7 tenements near Greek Church Shanghai…
Quite a beautiful illustrated book: https://archive.org/details/tsargrad_sbornik_istoricheskikh_ocherkov_posvyashchennykh_istorii_goroda/
This postcard with a view of North Szechuen (Sichuan) Road was sent from Lida in Shanghai to Anna Fischer in Moscow, in February 1914:…