Small cargo boat, Suzhou Creek (Wusong River), Shanghai

Small cargo boat, Suzhou Creek (Wusong River), Shanghai

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Da01-01. 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. This view is 'from Boat House'. The Boat House was beside the creek, near the junction of Soochow Road (Nansuzhou Lu) with Yuen Ming Yuen Road (Yuanmingyuan Lu). In the background, left to right: Hongkew Clinic, Deutsche Evangelische Church, German Consulate.

Caption in album or on mount

Soochow Creek from Boat House.

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1902

Photographer

Darwent, Charles Ewart

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections

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