Kong store and sweet chestnut stall, near Suzhou Creek, Shanghai

Kong store and sweet chestnut stall, near Suzhou Creek, Shanghai

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Da01-14. 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. ‘Soochow creek side’ could be North Soochow Road (Beisuzhou Lu) or Soochow Road (Nansuzhou Lu).

Caption in album or on mount

Kong store. Chestnut stall Soochow creek side

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1902

Photographer

Darwent, Charles Ewart

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections