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• Swatow Opium Guild 潮惠会馆, on the Chinese Bund

  A rare view of Chaohui Guildhall 潮惠会馆 (known to the westerners as Swatow Opium Guild), founded in 1839 by the natives of Chaoyang and Huizhou…

• Splendid architecture drawings from the 1910s

  Back in the 1910s, to showcase new and future buildings, Shanghai newspapers printed architectural drawings. Here are three excellent examples, found…

• Vladimir Kovalsky’s illustrated map of Shanghai (1928)

  This spectacular historic map of Shanghai is everyone's favorite. It was produced by the American publisher Carl Crow and the Russian artist…