Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of some locations from the latest hundred:

A residence at 471 Rue Lafayette, which became a site of a murder, in June 1932:

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The days of Qiaojia Road are numbered, and what better tribute to this street's historic landscape, than an artist's eye studying and reproducing it? I admire this team.


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This photo was posted in the Chinese-language Wechat group for fans of old Shanghai. It depicts Jiading in the 1880s:

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Here is a lovely collection of stereoscopic images of China by James Ricalton taken in 1900-1902, generously put online in hi-res by the Museum of New Zealand. Ricalton's photos were accompanied by a book (online at archive.org) describing each image in detail. There are several views of Shanghai as well.


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Old Xujiahui (or Siccawei) has not always been the gigantic five-street intersection that it is today. The roads used to be narrower, lined with two-story shops, and there was a creek running through the area. I was reminded of that creek when I came across this Harrison Forman's photo:

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