https://amsterdamopdekaart.nl/1850-1940

I’d love a map like this for Shanghai’s Old Town!



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Rijksmuseum has some great early views of Shanghai (and other places in China) - cirsply photographed, impeccably scanned and offered in insanely high resolution:


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Here are some views of Shanghai taken by Vincent Samuel Mentzel in 1973-1995, in the collection of Rijksmuseum:

Pedestrian passing a poster for the film Man with a Million (1954) on the wall of the former Cathay Theatre, in 1978:

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