Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: RA-m019. A scan of a magic lantern slide. Royal Asiatic Society Library reference: Glass Slide.00/(019). The Bubbling Well apparently dates to the third century AD, the bubbling caused by the eruption of carbonic acid gas. Bubbling Well Road (now Nanjing Xi Lu) was named after this well. See Jo02-31.

Caption in album or on mount

19 / […] Well

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1890-1910

Tags

• tree
• house
• cart
• pony
• well
• RAS

Material

Other

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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