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: Katya Knyazeva (avezink) wrote,
2018-02-22 10:57:00

Katya Knyazeva
avezink
2018-02-22 10:57:00

'Help make a better Shanghai' – YMCA archives

A real trove of hi-res archival images, photos, maps and textual records, mostly related to the activities of the YMCA in China: the Online Archives of the University of Minnesota.

Tags: 1930s, architecture, archive, photo, shanghai, ymca

The earliest photograph of Shanghai (1844)

This recently uncovered daguerrotype from around 1844 is the earliest known photographic image of Shanghai. It shows the Huanlong Bridge 环龙桥 and…
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New upload: Four Months of War (1937)

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