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Excerpt from Illustrations of China and Its People, Vol. 3 of 4: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented
Ince is69, the date at which the previous illustration was taken, the foreign settlement at Shanghai has been steadily improving. No. 8 is a photograph executed in is72, and designed to give some notion of the improvements to which reference has been made. At least two new buildings have been erected within the past four years, one being the Oriental Bank, bisected by the ?agstaff in the picture. The View was taken from behind the gate of the public gardens.
No. 9 shows the style of buildings at the southern extremity of the Bund, and the State of the ground fronting them in 1869.
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Ince is69, the date at which the previous illustration was taken, the foreign settlement at Shanghai has been steadily improving. No. 8 is a photograph executed in is72, and designed to give some notion of the improvements to which reference has been made. At least two new buildings have been erected within the past four years, one being the Oriental Bank, bisected by the ?agstaff in the picture. The View was taken from behind the gate of the public gardens.
No. 9 shows the style of buildings at the southern extremity of the Bund, and the State of the ground fronting them in 1869.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
John Thomson
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780365334101
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm
Page Count - 125
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Author
John Thomson
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ISBN - 9780282401535
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm
Page Count - 63
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