VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRE- REVOLUTION CHINA, 1870-1946

Here is an amazing collection of vintage photographs taken in pre-revolution China, taken in Pre Deng XiaoPing period (1870-1946).

Chinese Family [c1875] Attribution Unk

Group Of Chinese Women With Fans, Canton, China [c1880] Afong Lai

Greatwall China [1907] Herbert G. Ponting

Boxer Prisoners Captured By 6th US Cavalry, Tientsin, China [1901] Underwood & Co

Beggars, Beihai Park [c1917-1919] Sydney D. Gamble

Cholon Actress, Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina [c1900's] Attribution Unk

Qing Court Return, The Emperess Dowerger [1902] George E. Morrison

China, Manchu Ladies Of The Palace Being Warned To Stop Smoking [c1910-1925] Frank & Frances Carpenter

Interior Canal, Canton, China [c1917-1919] Sidney D. Gamble

Pekin, Walls Of The Tartar City [c1894-1896] William H. Jackson

Muslim Bandits, Xinjiang, China [c1915] Marc Aurel Stein

Peking To Paris Autorace [1907] Attribution Unk

Bride On Her Way To Wedding, Fuzhou Fujian China [c1911-1913] Ralph G. Gold

Bomb Protection [c1940] Attribution Unk

Mouth Of Coal Mine In Mountain Ridge West Of Ta Chu, China MAR [1909] Thomas C. Chamberlin

Bridges By Which The Night Police Of The Roofs Cross The Streets, Canton, China [1900] Underwood & Co.

Chang The Chinese Giant [c1870] Attribution Unk

Chinese Punishment, Whipping A Lawbreaker [c1900] Attribution Unk

Peking Mission School Children At Play, The Dragon's Head, China [1902] Carlton H. Graves Co

Foot Bound Girls, Liao Chow, Shansi, China [c1930] IE Oberholtzer (Probable)

During The Famine Young Child Dying In The Gutter, China [1946] Geroge Silk

Taiwan Aborigines, Bunun Tribe, Formosa [c1900] Attribution Unk

Empress Gobele Wan Rong [c1920-1940] Attribution Unk

Toy Vendor, Chinatown, San Francisco [c1900s] Arnold Genthe

Example Of A Coiffure On A Tartar Or Manchu Female, Frontview, Peking, Pechili Province, China [1869] John Thomson

The Meridian Gate, Entrance To The Forbidden City, Peking China [1927] Herbert C. White

Black, Chinese  Frances Carpenter

Ulysses S. Grant & Li Hung Chang, Tientsin, China [1879] Attribution Unk

Jade Belt Bridge & Boat, Summer Palace, Peking, China [c1924] Sidney D. Gamble

Men Laden With Tea, Sichuan Sheng, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson

Imperial Gate Of The Imperial City, Looking North, Peking, China [1901] Hawley C. White Co.

Family In Lanchow, China [1944] Fr. Mark Tennien

Kampa Dzong, Tibet [1904] John C. White

Forest Temple Near Chefoo, Shantung, China [c1895] William H. Jackson

Singing Girls, Hong Kong, China [c1901] Benjamin W. Kilburn Co.

A Boat On A River With Rolling Hills In The Background In The Kiangsu Province Or Yunnan Province In China [1946] Arthur Rothstein

Chinese Aviatrix Receives Gift Of New Plane From Colonel Roscoe Turner, Washington, D.C. [1939] Harris & Ewing

Natives At Breakfast, Movable Chow Shop, Canton, China [c1919] Keystone View Co.

Rich Merchants Dining With Singing Girls, Pekin, China [c1901] Benjamin W. Kilburn

A Chinese Professor, China [c1919] Keystone View Co.

Six Strongmen In Traditional Dress, China [1909] William Purdom

Cake Of Millet & Jujubes, Peking, China [1915] Frank N. Meyer

The Harvard Houseboat, Kiating Fu, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson

Stele Pavilion, SacredWay, Ming Tombs, Peking, China [c1900] Attribution Unk

Mercenary Artillerymen Supplied With Guns & Ammunition By The British [c1880] Attribution Unk

Canton, China [c1880] R.H. Brown

Flower Boats, Canton China [c1871] Emil Rusfeldt

View Of An Old Village, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong [c1946] Hedda Morrison

Kidnapped Girls, Foochow, China [1904] Attribution Unk

Yung Ting Men, Front View Of The Two Towers & The Barbican [1924] Osvald Siren

Jeunes Filles Chinoises [c1901] René Parison

Tibetan Lhacham, Tibet [c1879] Sarat Chandra Das

Bowl Shaped Objects Scattered Outside A Building, Yunnan, China [1922] Joseph F. C. Rock

Ching Yang Temple, Chentu, China [1908] Ernest H. Wilson

Leuchtturm Im Cantonfluss [c1891] C. R. Hager

Fisherman In Grand Canal By The East Gate, Peking, China [1907] Herbert C. White Co.

Queen's Road On Chinese New Years Day, Hong Kong, China [1902] Carlton H. Graves

China,  Kuan Hsien Temple [1908] Ernest H. Wilson

Drache Am Schleusenrand Im Túngchou-Kanal, Peking, Chihli Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann

Examination Hall With 7500 Cells, Canton, China [1873] Attribution Unk

Der Industriebezirk Der Salzbrunnen, Tzeliutsing, Szechúan Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann

Auf Der Reise Zum Kloster Des Himmelsknaben Bei Ningpo, Ningpo-Tíen Túng Sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann

Der Abt Des Klosters, Tíen túng sze, Chekiang Province [c1906] Ernst Boerschmann

Young Mother Carrying A Child On Her Back In The Market, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison

Produce & Wares From Shops Along The Sides Of A Typical Backstreet, Western District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison

Seated Man Amid Baskets Of Fish & Hanging Dried Fish, Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison

Produce & Wares From Shops Along The Sides Of A Typical Backstreet, Western District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison

House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending A Stove In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison

House Interior Showing A Woman At A Brick Stove, A Bucket & A Ladle Made From A Gourd In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison

Fisher Families With Junks In Aberdeen Harbor, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison

Men With Leopard At The Dongan Mission, China [1932] Fr. Otto Rauschenbach

China's Common Carrier, Her Substitute For Railways, A Camel Square In Peking, China [1901] Underwood & Co

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