Old blockhouse (Taiping fort) at Mudu, near Suzhou
Collection
Identifier
Da01-09
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Da01-09. This photograph by the Revd. Charles Ewart Darwent is from an album inscribed to Herbert Wilcockson, from C. E. Darwent. The Revd. C.E. Darwent, Minister of the Union Church, Shanghai, was also the author of a photographer-friendly guidebook entitled, ‘Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlement and native city’ (1904) - https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217825. The building depicted could be the remains of fort dating from the Taiping rebellion (1850-1864)? Mutu or Mo-tu (Mudu), near Soochow (Suzhou).
Caption in album or on mount
Old gate Mo-tu
Location
Estimated Date
1902
Photographer
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
Repository
University of Bristol Library, Special Collections
