Concession Collection

Gordon Hall, Tientsin (Tianjin), China
Gordon Hall, the seat of British administration in the British concession in Tientsin (now Tianjin) in China; it was named after General Charles Gordon who laid out the plans for the British

Alfred William Moritz Meyer-Waldeck (1864-1928) - a German naval officer, Vice Admiral and Governor of the leased territory of Jiaozhou in Shantung province of China (Kiaochow) between 1911 and 1914

F. W Rickett
Mr. F. W Rickett, the English financier at Croydon Aerodrome, pictured in September 1935, after returning from Abyssinia to secure oil and mineral rights concession from Emperor Haile Selassie

Shanghai, China circa 1890 - Wheelbarrows on The Bund, (French concession) Date: circa 1890

Hotel des Colonies, French Concession, Shanghai, China circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Concession indulgences of the Virgin from La Rodona in Vic
Grating indulgences of the Virgin from the church of La Rodona in Vic. 1342. Detail miniature. Virgin and child. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Catalonia. Spain

China - Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway
Lantern slide of Hong Kong shweing peak and peak railway. In 1881 Alexander Findlay Smith first put the project of a Peak Railway into shape

Shanghai 1937-38
Passing beneath two flags - the five barred banner of the Reformed Government of China and the Rising Sun of Japan - former Chinese residents of Nantao return to their homes when the French

Shanghai refugees seek refuge
Chinese civilian refugees from the Nantao part of Shanghai gather outside the gates of the French Concession hoping to be admitted and find refuge Date: 1937

German soldiers in China, probably in the German concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

German sailors in China
Two German sailors in China, probably in the German concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

Japanese soldier in China, probably in the Japanese concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

Italian soldier in China
Italian sailor or soldier in China, probably in the Italian concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

Dutch soldier in China
Dutch soldier or possibly sailor with rifle in China, probably in the Netherlands concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

Belgian soldier in China
Belgian soldier or guard in China, probably in the Belgian concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

Russian soldiers in China
Two Russian soldiers in China, probably in the Russian concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

German soldier in China, probably in the German concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

French soldier in China
A French soldier in China, probably in the French concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). Date: C.1911

American soldier in China, possibly in the British concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). (The United States didn t request or receive extraterritorial rights in Tientsin.) Date: C.1911

Vietnam - Guard of the Debernardi Concession
" An old acquaintance among the Cochin hunters - Guard of the Debernardi Concession". Cochin here refers to Cochinchina

China - Dalian City
Dalian, China. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s, and then occupied by Japan in 1895 during the first Sino-Japanese War

The European Concession at Shameen Island in the distance
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

The proposed concession to Cuba. Illustration shows a young woman labeled Cuba turning away from Uncle Sam who is offering her a plate labeled Reduction of Tariff on Cuban Sugar with an egg labeled

British blue jackets protecting British concession at Hankow
British blue jackets poses against a wall of sandbags in front of the British concession at Hancow, China during the Chinese rebellion of 1911. Date: 1911

Vietnamese Woman - Hanoi - Cigarette Seller
Vietnamese Woman - Annam, Hanoi - Cigarette Seller (also selling bananas) at the entrance to her concession (shop / selling space). Date: circa 1910

Japanese Military leaders st Shenyang, Manchuria
The Heads of the Japanese Military at the headquarters of their Manchurian Armies at Mukden (now Shenyang), Manchuria following the end of the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905)

Anglo-Persian Oil-Fields
A panoramic view of the central area of oil-fields in Persia (modern-day Iran) showing the offices of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company

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