Chinese Nationalist flag flying on Sihang Godown (四行仓库), Shanghai, 29 October 1937

Chinese Nationalist flag flying on Sihang Godown (四行仓库), Shanghai, 29 October 1937

Collection

Montgomery, John

Identifier

JM04-102

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: JM04-102. Photograph numbered 102, published in 'The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937 / Shanghai'. Caption in Index: 'Joint Savings Society Godown flying Chinese flag. Oct. 29, 1937.' The Joint Savings Society Godown (JSS or Sihang Warehouse 四行仓库) is on the left. The Continental Bank Godown is on the right. As viewed from a lumber yard in the International Settlement, across Suzhou Creek. The godowns were the location of part of the Battle of Shanghai, as dramatised in the (historically inaccurate) blockbuster film 'The Eight Hundred' (八佰 Ba Bai). See JM02-071, JM04-101 and JM04-103.

Caption in album or on mount

102

Location

Shanghai

Date

Friday 29 October 1937

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections

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