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Below is a selection of images from the latest 100 uploads. Click on any image to go to its PastVu page and see the address, date and provenance of the image.



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We love artistic depictions of old Shanghai as much as we love historic photographs. Below is a selection of drawings, paintings and sketches from the latest hundred uploads. Click on any image to go to its PastVu page and see the address, date and provenance of the image.



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Facebook page: Mapping Old Shanghai.

Below is a selection from the latest hundred:



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This drawing of a “bijou” apartment building, by Palmer and Turner, seems to have been entrusted to a young architect. Could it have been Ilarion Tomashevsky or Vladimir Dronnikoff, who had joined the firm by then? Both would have thriving careers later, and Tomashevsky would be famous for his smartly laid-out miniature apartment buildings (“midget ( Read more... )

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