Boat train passing fortified jetty and Sihang warehouse, Soochow Creek, Shanghai

Boat train passing fortified jetty and Sihang warehouse, Soochow Creek, Shanghai

Collection

Rosholt, Malcolm

Identifier

Ro-n0268

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ro-n0268.  The Sihang (Si Hang) warehouse in Chapei (Zhabei) is on the right.  For a description of the 'boat trains', see Revd Charles Darwent's guidebook to Shanghai: 'Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlement and native city' (1904), page 43.  See Ro-n0268.  See Ro-n0267.

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1937

Photographer

Rosholt, Malcolm

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph