Shanghai women at work (1890s-1960s)
March 8 - time for women empowerment stories! In the past, we highlighted the careers of the dentist Antonina Kazimirow-Doenina, sculptor Isabella Karsnitsky, architect Cecilia Ezra, journalist Nevada Semenza, dancer Larissa Andersen, and scam artist Slick-Fingered Lil. This year we have a historic photo essay.
Weaver, late Qing:
Image: Shanghai Library
Making straw sandals, late Qing:
Image: Shanghai Library
Students at the South Gate Presbyterian Mission School, 1901:
Image: Library of Congress
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Nanny waking a toddler, c. 1918:
Mending clothes in the port, c. 1918:
Moving across Suzhou Creek with her family, c. 1918:
Images: Sydney D. Gamble
Nurses training, 1925:
Flickr Cities in Old Days
Thais Homiakoff (Jaspar) opening a training center for women, 1933:
Image: Y. S. Sun
Woman and girl shopping in the times of the occupation, 1937:
Image: Spaarnestad
Tailoring workshop at St. Olga's Orphanage, late 1930s:
Image: Amir Khisamutdinov
Dentist seeing a patient, 1940:
Image: A. T. Hull, Jr.
Woman running a café, 1940s:
Image: Yad Vashem
Tatiana Chumakova, wife of the artist Victor Podgoursky, painting in the studio, 1940:
Image: Malcolm Rosholt, HPC
Office work, 1940:
Image: Werner von Boltenstern, LMU
Working in a shoe shop, 1940s:
Image: Werner von Boltenstern, LMU
Typing class at the Gregg Business College, 1940s:
Image: Yad Vashem
Dressmaker Eleonora Garnett and the model in front of a customer, 1946:
Image: George Silk
Making propaganda in the Soviet Consulate, 1946:
Image: George Silk
Participants of the taxi dancers' riot in December 1948:
Image: Jack Birns
Opera singer Katerina Orlovskaya in the Renaissance restaurant, 1949:
Image: Jack Birns
Students marching in support of the Communists, 1949:
Image: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Hairdresser with customer, 1949:
Image: Jack Birns
Tailors posing at their workplace, 1950s:
Image: Shanghai Library
At the former Wing-On Department store, 1960s:
Image: Shanghai Municipal Archive
Acting on stage, 1960s:
Image: Shanghai Municipal Archive
Red Guard posing at the People's Square, 1960s:
Image: Taobao
Weaver, late Qing:
Image: Shanghai Library
Making straw sandals, late Qing:
Image: Shanghai Library
Students at the South Gate Presbyterian Mission School, 1901:
Image: Library of Congress
[See the rest of the images...]
Nanny waking a toddler, c. 1918:
Mending clothes in the port, c. 1918:
Moving across Suzhou Creek with her family, c. 1918:
Images: Sydney D. Gamble
Nurses training, 1925:
Flickr Cities in Old Days
Thais Homiakoff (Jaspar) opening a training center for women, 1933:
Image: Y. S. Sun
Woman and girl shopping in the times of the occupation, 1937:
Image: Spaarnestad
Tailoring workshop at St. Olga's Orphanage, late 1930s:
Image: Amir Khisamutdinov
Dentist seeing a patient, 1940:
Image: A. T. Hull, Jr.
Woman running a café, 1940s:
Image: Yad Vashem
Tatiana Chumakova, wife of the artist Victor Podgoursky, painting in the studio, 1940:
Image: Malcolm Rosholt, HPC
Office work, 1940:
Image: Werner von Boltenstern, LMU
Working in a shoe shop, 1940s:
Image: Werner von Boltenstern, LMU
Typing class at the Gregg Business College, 1940s:
Image: Yad Vashem
Dressmaker Eleonora Garnett and the model in front of a customer, 1946:
Image: George Silk
Making propaganda in the Soviet Consulate, 1946:
Image: George Silk
Participants of the taxi dancers' riot in December 1948:
Image: Jack Birns
Opera singer Katerina Orlovskaya in the Renaissance restaurant, 1949:
Image: Jack Birns
Students marching in support of the Communists, 1949:
Image: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Hairdresser with customer, 1949:
Image: Jack Birns
Tailors posing at their workplace, 1950s:
Image: Shanghai Library
At the former Wing-On Department store, 1960s:
Image: Shanghai Municipal Archive
Acting on stage, 1960s:
Image: Shanghai Municipal Archive
Red Guard posing at the People's Square, 1960s:
Image: Taobao