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1. 8235.k.6(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
8235.k.6(5)
Title:
Railway train filled with European and American visitors. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Side view of the locomotive and carriages: 'The contract with Mr. Dixon had specified the 1st July as the day for opening the railway. On the 30th June about 150 of the European residents were invited to make the opening trip in the permanent train, over the first five ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
30 Jun 1876
Extent:
1 item

2. 8235.k.6(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
8235.k.6(7)
Title:
Engine and carriage sheds at Shanghai. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking towards the sheds, with Europeans posed around the two locomotives in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 35309(46)

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Add MS 35309(46)
Title:
Quarter Deck of H.M.S. 'Furious'. Photographer: Osborne, Sherard
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events Group of naval officers posed on the quarter deck of H.M.S. 'Furious.' Also inscribed in pencil on reverse: 'The Furious. Her quarterdeck.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 35309(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 35309(47)
Title:
The Embassy [group of Lord Elgin and staff, China]. Photographer: Osborne, Sherard
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Lord Elgin with members of his official staff. James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, is seated in the centre, with other figures standing in a line behind, identified as follows (left to right): Horatio Nelson Lay (interpreter), Laurence Oliphant, Honble....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 35309(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 35309(48)
Title:
The 'Furious' off Shanghai from the Consulate window. Photographer: Osborne, Sherard
Scope & Content:
Genre: Historical Events View looking across the consulate garden towards H.M.S. 'Furious' at her moorings. Pencilled note on the reverse of the print remarks, 'An imperfect photograph.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1859
Extent:
1 item

6. Mss Eur C402/3(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C402/3(1)
Title:
Inspectorate, Chinese Customs, Shanghai, 1903. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Chinese Imperial Customs officials, identified as follows: Sandercock, Commings, Lebas, Tisdall, Bowring, Bredon, Lowder. [Gelatin silver print, 101x110mm]. Subjects = Bowring Collection; Chinese Imperial Customs; customs officials
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 item

7. Mss Eur G115/28(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G115/28(24)
Title:
Dining room at 5 Yangtsepoo Road, Shanghai, 1905. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Shows the interior of a dining room, including table and chairs, armchair, and dressers with numerous ornamental vases.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

8. Mss Eur G115/28(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G115/28(25)
Title:
Drawing room at 5 Yangtsepoo Road [Shanghai.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Shows the interior of a drawing room, including armchairs, small tables, a settee, an upright piano, rugs and numerous ornamental vases. Dated from print 24.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 364/5(43)

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Photo 364/5(43)
Title:
A street in Shanghai. Photographer: Zetland, 2nd Marquess of
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View showing rickshaws passing along a street lined with shops with elaborately carved wooden balconies. Reproduced in Earl of Ronaldshay, 'A Wandering Student in the Far East' (2 vols, Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1908), vol. 1, p. 36. Subjects = Chinese arch...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1906
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1147(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1147(8)
Title:
Lecture on Sinologists and European books on China, delivered by Mr. Ch'ên Kuo-Ch'üan, in the 'Ya shih' Garden, Shanghai, 15th Dec 1912. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of participants, posed in the garden. With caption in Chinese and English, written on overlay and printed onto the photograph.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
15 Dec 1912
Extent:
1 item