The International Bridge (Wanguo Bridge), Tianjin, with a destroyer

The International Bridge (Wanguo Bridge), Tianjin, with a destroyer

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Gr01-141. Post card. The International Bridge (Wanguo Bridge), was first known as the French Bridge, and later renamed Chiang Kai-shek Bridge. The bridge was again renamed in 1949: the Liberation Bridge, Jiefang Bridge. The steel, through truss, bascule bridge was completed in October 1927 and still stands. See Gr01-139.

Caption in album or on mount

The ‘Wan-kuo-chiao’ International Bridge, Tientsin.

Location

Tianjin

Estimated Date

1937-1945

Material

Paper

Media

Tinted photograph

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