View of Shanghai, China
Shanghai'. The Treaty of Nanking (Nanjing), 1842, opened the port to foreign trade. In 1843 Captain Balfour, British Consul, accepted a site (partly marshland) granted for foreign settlement. This is the site (the Bund) in the British concession in 1869
Picture No
11939098
Media ID
46076917
Size
3880px x 1957px
(2.1MB)
Credit
© The John Meek Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Usage Restrictions
Editorial Use Only
Source
From Illustrations of China and its People' by J Thomson, published by Sampson Low, 1874. Photograph: John Meek
Date
1869
