Links

-- 65 rare images of old China by Maurice-Louis Branger (Photopresse Agency, 1900-1914)

-- 180 Years of Chinese Photography

-- 360doc Victor Segalen in Sichuan and more

-- Agence D’Images de la Défense Search for ‘Chine’

-- AGSL Digital Photo Archive Asia and Middle East American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin

-- Archival Collections of Asia Photographs: Asia Photographs at Harvard  An article by Raymond Lum

-- Archivo China España 1800-1950

-- Asia The National Archives UK - World through a lens

-- Asian and Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs Database compiled by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek

-- Beijing of Dreams The Chinese History of Science and Culture Foundation

-- Bo lan Zhonghua tu zhi (Herbert Francis Brady albums) The J. Paul Getty Trust

-- British Empire and Commonwealth Collection (Bristol Archives) For example: Forshaw Collection (ref 2005/068), Hong Kong and Shanghai, 1910-1940. Marriott Collection (ref 1998/028), mostly Hong Kong c.1902 – 1923. Payne Collection (ref 2002/027), Tientsin, 1890s – 1945.

-- Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China The Getty Research Institute

-- Bucklin China Archive Photographs by Harold Bucklin

-- Carter D. Holton Collection (Harvard Library) - Especially Northwestern China, 1923-1949

-- Charles in Shanghai (Dutch community in Shanghai and Hong Kong) - Pieter Lommerse on flickr

-- China The National Archives UK - a selection of albums, whole pages (Flickr)

-- China Families A genealogy resource and a sister site to Historical Photographs of China. Search the various records and directories in ‘China Families’ for information about people who lived or worked or sought refuge in China

-- China in WW2  A blog about the 1931-45 Sino-Japanese conflict that shaped modern Asia

-- 'China 1944' and 'China Old and New' Photographs by Dr. Clinton C. Millett

-- China 1974-76  Slides by Michael Rank (Flickr)

-- 'The China Incident' Presbyterian Archives Research Centre

-- The China Marines (1818-1949)

-- The China Marines (1905-1949)

-- China Postcard (Flickr)

-- China Rhyming Paul French's blog

-- China Through the Eyes of CIM Missionaries

-- China's Wings Gregory Crouch - CNAC China National Aviation Corporation

-- Chinese Maritime Customs project (University of Bristol) - extensive resources, datasets, bibliographies, etc

-- The Chinese Revolution, 1927 Henry Sara photographs, at University of Warwick

-- Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period Heidelberg University

-- Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia Some of these photographs were taken in China

-- Clues to the past: The lost Sino-Japanese war photos  Photographs collected by Zou Dehuai

-- Corporal Lennard - images on Flickr from an album compiled by Lance Corporal Tom Lennard, 1st Northamptonshire Regiment (Hong Kong and Weihai, 1927-1929).

-- Database of Taiwanese Old Photos

-- DBHKer Surviving pre-WW2 architecture (Flickr)

-- Dennis George Crow Specialist in historic China and Asian Photography

-- Digital Silk Road National Institute of Informatics

-- Durham County Record Office - Durham Light Infantry (D/DLI)

-- Durham Light Infantry 1920-46 See ‘2 DLI SHANGHAI 1927’, ‘1 DLI CHINA 1937-40’ and ‘CHINA ALBUM’

-- Early Chinese Periodicals Online Heidelberg University

-- East Asia Image Collection Lafayette College Libraries

-- Edward Bangs Drew Chinese Maritime Customs Service Photographs Harvard Library

-- Early Photography of China Collection The 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop; Stephan and Jacob Loewentheil. Includes the Ernst Boerschmann archive (architecture)

-- Eileen/Don in China Eileen and Donald Littleton (Assistant Harbour Master, CMCS, in Tientsin) on Flickr, from John Lauper

-- Europeana Photography  Includes Osvald Siren (caves, sculpture etc) and Harry Weber (Hong Kong, 1970s)

-- Everyday Life in Maoist China  Features a good list of Chinese photographers.  Search for images via a keyword/tag in the search box.

-- Everyone is free to see our civilization (Shuge)

-- Faces of Tientsin, 1946. Photographs by Harold Giedt (Old China Hands)

-- Fan Ho 1931-2016 Hong Kong photographer whose work has “lyrical beauty, dramatic power, and poetic grandeur”

-- Father Leo Van Dyke collection

-- FOTOE A stock photograph library, includes historical images

-- France China Archives China photographs in public and private archives in France, 1840s to the present

-- Francis E. Stafford photographs, 1909-1933 Stanford University Libraries

-- Frank Fischbeck Collection (images of Hong Kong) – HKUL

-- The Frederick Williamson Collection

-- The Giles Pickford Collection Australian National University

-- Goodbye, Yan'an Second World War photographs by Michael Lindsay

-- Gwulo: Old Hong Kong Over 30,000 pages about old Hong Kong

-- Haldore Hanson's China Collection (1937-1938)

-- Harrison Forman Collection University of Milwaukee. See also the Inventory Key and pdfs (and Ro-n0644)

-- Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 Harvard Library

-- Hedda Morrison’s China China Heritage Quarterly

-- The Hillman Stereoview Archive – China Galleries 1-60

-- The Hillman Stereoview Archive – China Galleries 61- 100 & Hong Kong Galleries 1-7

-- Historic Shanghai

-- Historic Shanghai (on Instagram)

-- Historical Chinese music images, collected by David Badagnani (Facebook album. Scroll down for the photographic images)

-- Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896-1920

-- Historical Images of Taiwan

-- History, empire, China, and things found on the way Professor Robert Bickers's blog

-- History of Photography in China 1839 - ca.1911  Selected Annotated Bibliography The Getty Research Institute

-- The Hong Kong Heritage Project (especially Kadoorie Family businesses and interests)

-- Hong Kong In The 1950s Captured By A Teenager (Fan Ho)

-- Hong Kong War Diary 1941 defence of Hong Kong

-- International Mission Photography Archive University of Southern California

-- Isabella Bird National Library of Scotland

-- Joan’s Shanghai Blog

-- John Thomson at Wellcome Collection

-- John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers Princeton University Library

-- Joseph Needham (Cambridge Digital Library) journals and images

-- Joseph Needham Photographs: Wartime China, 1942-1946 Needham Research Institute

-- Joseph Rock’s images Photographs by botanist and explorer Joseph Rock (Harvard University)

-- Juan Menarini, Foochow album Archivo China Espagña 1850-1950

-- Katya Knyazeva's scrapbook - Shanghai history and architecture

-- Library of Congress Online Catalog (search for 'China')

-- LIFE magazine

-- Luella Delamarte Dawson Photographs of China University of Delaware

-- Macau Antigo A blog about old Macau

-- Mellerick Album Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia

-- Musée Français de la Photographie Search for ‘Chine’

-- My Oriental Album American sailor's album, 1930s.

-- National Media Museum Photographs by Beato and Thomson, inter alia

-- New York Public Library Digital Gallery New York Public Library (Many images, including photographs)

-- Nicholas Kitto Hong Kong photographer, exploring treaty port architecture

-- North China Railway Archive Thousands of photographs taken in north China during the Sino-Japanese War

-- Old Asia Photography Terry Bennett's site (China picture library images)

-- Old China (Flickr)

-- Old China Coast Ships Illustrated Fleet lists of Steamship Companies of the China Coast, and the Pearl and Yangtze Rivers

-- Old Photographs Fever – The Search for China’s Pictured Past BBC Radio 4 documentary about the HPC project

-- Oldshanghaipaul Images from China Rhyming on Instagram

-- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Some China images by Wilhelm Burger

-- The Photographic Heritage Foundation (Hong Kong images, including by Lee Fook Chee)

-- Photographs by Robert Carl Cohen, 1957 to 1978

-- Photography of China This blog includes old and new images, also interviews and a good list of links

-- Photos of Shanghai During the First Half of the 20th Century (China Smack)

-- Pinterest  Albert Kahn, and more

-- Reg Murphy in China Slides by Reginald Murphy

-- Retro View of Mankind’s Habitat - China Gallery (4,238 images)

-- Retro View of Mankind’s Habitat – Shanghai images on maps

-- The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China Harvard Library

-- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - For example: ALBUM – De Englese gemeenschap in China, Sjanghai, Peking, Foochow en Swatow, anonymous, c.1879-c.1890 and Made in China

-- Robert Henry Chandless Photographs University of Washington

-- Royal Asiatic Society China Glass Slides

-- Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada Photographs by Charles Frederick Moore (1838-1916)

-- Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC, Canada Photographs of Guangzhou (Canton) in 1858 by Major General Sir John Frederick Crease (c1837-1907)

-- Royal Geographical Society Picture Library  For example, search for ‘China’ in ‘Historical Collection’.  Includes photographs by Mrs Isabella Lucy Bishop (née Bird) and E.H. Wilson.

-- School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Archives & Special Collections

-- Serve the People! Slides by William A. Joseph

-- Sha Fei Photographic Collection 1940s wartime

-- Shackford Collection of Photographs of China

-- Shanghai 1937 Photographs by Karl Kengelbacher

-- Shanghai Art Deco  

-- Shanghai Street Stories Photojournalism and street photography of Shanghai

-- Shanghai That Was (before 1939) (Flickr)

-- Shanghailander 'The blog about old Shanghai'

-- Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Duke University

-- Sikhs in Shanghai A blog by Meena Vathyam

-- Sir Robert Hart Photograph Collection Queen's University Belfast

-- Solange Brand – Chine, 1966

-- Soldiers of the Queen - A Virtual Museum of Antique Victorian-era British Military Photographs and Associated Biographical Research

-- Terry Bennett ‘History of Photography in China’ (three volumes published by Bernard Quaritch Ltd)

-- Terry Bennett Collection of Early China Photographs (PCN - The Photographic Collections Network)

-- Tess in Shanghai Tess Johnston's site

-- Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Photostream University of Toronto (Flickr) - William Charles White (Hangzhou and Fuzhou) and R.J. Davidson

-- Thomas H. Hahn Docu-images Gallery of documentary and historical photographs of China

-- Tianjin au temps des concessions étrangères sous l’objectif d’André Bontemps (1931-1935) 24 films and 500 images of Tianjin

-- The Tibet Album British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950

-- A Tour of Old Canton Presbyterian Archives Research Centre

-- Trans Asia Photography Review Journal

-- Travels in Southwest China (photographs by Fritz Weiss)

-- Turn of the century China Images on Flickr from the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham

-- Villages Academica Sinica

-- Virtual Beijing Institut d'Asie Orientale, University of Lyon

-- Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time Institut d'Asie Orientale, University of Lyon

-- Virtual Suzhou Institut d'Asie Orientale, University of Lyon

-- Virtual Tianjin: Tianjin Under Nine Flags University of Bristol and Institut d'Asie Orientale, University of Lyon

-- Virtual Wuhan Institut d'Asie Orientale, University of Lyon

-- Virtual Xi'an Institut d'Asie Orientale, University of Lyon

-- Visualising China Blog University of Bristol (Robert Bickers, Jamie Carstairs, and guest bloggers)

-- Wattis Fine Art Details of some photographers who worked in China

-- Werner von Boltenstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection (1937-49, especially Jewish community)

-- Werner von Boltenstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection - Online Archive of California

-- World Digital Library

-- Yad Vashem Photo Collections - photographs tagged with the keyword 'China'

-- Yang, Etudiant Ouvrier en 1920 See images in ‘Documents’

-- Yuezhong Museum of Historical Images (MoHI)  Shezhen, China