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Below is a selection of most recent color images. Clicking on any image redirects to PastVu, where there are more details about the addresses, dates and provenance of each image.

Facebook page of the project: Mapping Old Shanghai.



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Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of some locations from the most recent 100 uploads:

Steering a boat on Suzhou Creek:

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004927

At 12:55 we begin to see the Garden Bridge and the traffic on the Bund (as observed from the Broadway Mansions), boats on Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, the Embankment Building and Henan Road Bridge, and finally, get close to and inside the Chinese YMCA on Tibet Road:


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Building the Broadway Mansions:

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The oiginal footage comes from USC Fox Movietone collection; I posted some stills earlier.

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