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Not so long ago I posted a map of Shanghai tramways in 1914.


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Back in the 1910s, to showcase new and future buildings, Shanghai newspapers printed architectural drawings. Here are three excellent examples, found in the Shangai Times.

1. New home of Ewo (Jardine, Matheson & Co) on the Bund, announced in December 1919:

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“Thus we did approach by sea, like in old times, to watch all these things unfold.”


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Quite a beautiful illustrated book: https://archive.org/details/tsargrad_sbornik_istoricheskikh_ocherkov_posvyashchennykh_istorii_goroda/


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