This nameless wedge-shaped building with the round corner facing the old town - everyone’s favorite and slated for the demolition - now has a historic view, which shows a tea store that opened in its northern end in 1931:


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Facebook page: Mapping Old Shanghai.

Below is a selection from the latest hundred. The 1937 images mostly focus on the boundary of the French Concession and the gates to the Chinese City, reinforced at the onset of the Japanese occupation.



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