Updates on Historical Photographs of China: explore 25,000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 & 1950. A University of Bristol project https://hpcbristol.net
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Content update! We have added 247 photographs of Hong Kong from the National Archives, 1869-1900 by Lai Fong, John Thomson & William Pryor. Nice to have 65 by von Stillfried commissioned by governor Hennessy in 1881-82 including this waterfront view. All in www.hpcbristol.net search NA14 NA17 NA25
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On our blog, a new post Dr Yorgos Moraitis introduces his new book on Robert Hart: visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...
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1/2 Two new posts, one on visualisingchina.net/blog, on Shanghai's former First World War Memorial (shown below as it never was): visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...
New content: burying Sun Yat-sen, returning Weihaiwei, Yangzi Gorges and portraits of rural fold: China 1928-31 caught in an album of photographs compiled by British naval officer Leslie Ayre: hpcbristol.net/collections/... Here's one of them, a man in Changsha with a big smile and a big hat
Large wooden representation of an old Chinese coin suspended from a bridge in Bai yun guan courtyard at New Year's, Beijing, 1933-1946
Morrison, Hedda Collection
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#chinesehistory #beijing #architecture #marble #北京 #老北京 #建築 #橋 #歷史 #Chineseculture
The central (pontoon) part of the Guangji Bridge (广济桥 or 廣濟橋), Chaozhou (潮州), 1870-1900
Bridge of boats.
Maxwell Family Collection
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Unidentified young woman and man on a bridge, Shing Mun Reservoir, Hong Kong, summer 1938
Hutchinson Family Collection
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2/2 The second on the website of the Société d’Histoire des Français de Chine: wiki.histoire-chine.fr/index.php/Th...
Kunming Lake, Shiqikong Qiao, and Kuoru Pavilion at the Summer Palace, Beijing
Morrison, Hedda Collection
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#Beijing #summerpalace #Bridge #Architecture #Pavilion #頤和園 #北京 #舊照 #historyinpictures #Chinesehistory
