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Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• Dongjiadu Church Fire station 董家渡天主堂火政会

  The area around Dongjiadu Cathedral was being cleared in 2011, when I saved these street views from a web service that no longer shows them. Years…

• Jinjiafang drawings by Peter Fan

  https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Ghs43Y9EPnbvTTyZf9TPsg Here is a collection of excellent drawings of Jinjiafang and adjacent streets by Peter Fan,…

• Old town maps from the government survey

  I'd like to unlock my treasury and share some archival and research materials on Shanghai that could be useful to others. These maps used to…