View from the street of the offices of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs: The only thoroughly Chinese building that we are acquainted with in the foreign settlement of Shanghai, is the Custom House. We believe that originally it was a temple, but be that as it may, it has been appropriated t...
The Far East. A monthly journal, illustrated with photographs. Published simultaneously in Tokio, Japan; Shanghai, China; and in Hongkong. New series. Vol. 2. No. 4. April, 1877. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Imprint: Shanghai. Printed for the Proprietor, at the 'Far East' Printing Office, 18 Nanking Road.
The upper section of the anchorage, Shanghai. Photographer: Unknown
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View looking towards European shipping at anchor in the Whangpoo River: 'So large a traffic within comparatively small limits, requires much good management in berthing the ships. The space then in front of the native city and foreign settlements, a distance of nearly four miles, is divided into...
H. E. Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, C.B., G.C.M.G. Late Governor of Hongkong. Photographer: Unknown
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Full-length seated studio portrait of Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy (1810-1883), colonial governor of The Gambia (1851-52), Sierra Leone (1852-54), Western Australia (1854-62), Vancouver (1863-67), West Africa (1867-72), Hong Kong (1872-77) and Queensland (1877-83).
View taken in the Public Gardens, Shanghai. [Showing the premises of] Messrs. Siemssen and Co., Comptoir d'Escompte, the Masonic Hall, Messrs. Pustau and Co. Photographer: Unknown
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View from the public gardens looking towards European style buildings, the Masonic Hall in the centre of the group.
Group at the inauguration of the Ward Memorial Hall [Sunkiang] Photographer: Unknown
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Group portrait of Chinese and European dignitaries posed in front of the building at its inauguration. The building was erected at Sunkiang, 20 miles south-west of Shanghai, to the memory of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American adventurer who had commanded the 'Ever Victious Army' against the T...
The Far East. A monthly journal, illustrated with photographs. Published simultaneously in Tokio, Japan; Shanghai, China; and in Hongkong. New series. Vol. 2. No. 5. May, 1877. Photographer(s): Unknown
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Imprint: Shanghai. Printed for the Proprietor, at the 'Far East' Printing Office, 23 Keangse Road.