Nanking Collection

Tea House, Nanking Road, Shanghai, China
Tea House in Nanking Road, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1908

HMS Carlisle, HMS Sirdar, Nanking, Nanjing, China 1927
Vintage c.1920s photograph: British Royal Navy ships, HMS Carlisle, HMS Sirdar, Nanking, Nanjing, China 1927

Road making, Nanking, China

Road making in Nanking, China in the early 1900s

Nanjing bamboo plantation, China

Nanking Road, Shanghai, China, early 1900s

Signing the Treaty of Nankin (Nanking, Nanjing), ending the First Opium War, 29 August 1842. Date: 1842

Lloyd Road and Nanking, Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China
19th century vintage photograph: large crowd on the corner of Lloyd Road and Nanking, Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China

Nanking, Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China
Vintage c.1920s photograph: Nanking, Nanjing Road, Shanghai, China

Octagonal nine-story porcelain tower in Nanjing (Nanking), China. Handcoloured illustration and copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrrarios Costumes Antique

Street in Nanjing, China, 1830s
Street in Nanjing (Nanking), China, with its houses and storefronts decorated with white tiles and whitewash, flagpoles and banners

Chinese man bowing cotton, Qing Dynasty
Chinese man bowing cotton to remove husks, Qing Dynasty. He uses a bamboo frame to bow the cotton to remove dirt from the cotton down

View of the port of Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China, one of the five ports opened to British trade by the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, after the First Opium War. 19th century

View of the port of Foo Choo Foo (Fuzhou), China
Foo Choo Foo (Fuzhou), one of the five ports opened to British trade by the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, after the First Opium War. 1847

MANDARINS HOUSE 1840
An apartment in a mandarins house, near Nanking Date: 1840

Nanking Road in Shanghai, China 1920s Date: 1920s

Statues on the Sacred Way - Ming Tombs, Beijing, China
Statues at the Divine Road (or Sacred Way ) - Ming Tombs, Beijing, China Date: circa 1920s

Hankou, China - The HMS Gnat in harbour
Hankou (one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan), China - The HMS Gnat (T60) (a Royal Navy Insect class gunboat) in harbour

Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, China - Camel Statues
Statues of Camels - grave monuments at the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the tomb of the Hongwu Emperor and founder of the Ming Dynasty

Twin Elephant statues at Nanjing, China
Twin stone Elephant statues close to the Ming Tomb at Nanjing, China. The Xiaoling Tomb in Nanjing is the final resting place of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming dynasty, who ruled China from 1368-1398

Sun Yat Sen, President of the Republic of China
Sun Yat Sen (1866-1925) (at the centre in a fur coat) leaving Shanghai for Nanking to assume his position as President of the newly formed Republic of China

Street in Nanking, China. Date: circa 1910s

Gateway, Nanking (Nanjing) China, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Chinese Street Scene
A shopping street scene in Peking (now Beijing) or Nanking (now Nanjing). Date: 1752

Sir Henry Pottinger
SIR HENRY POTTINGER British soldier and diplomat Negotiated Treaty of Nanking in 1842 and became the first British governor of Hong Kong Date: 1789 - 1856

Chinese flag, womens shoes, Porcelain Pagoda at Nanking (Nanjing).. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Chiang Kai-Shek at the gate of the Ming Tombs, 1927
General Chiang Kai-Shek (centre), Chinese nationalist leader, at the gateway of the Ming Tombs at Nanking, with two of his guards. Date: 1927

HMS Suffolk with destroyer and gunboat, Nanking, China
HMS Suffolk (55), British County class heavy cruiser, with destroyer D07 and a gunboat on the south bank of the Yangtze River at Nanking (Nanjing), China. Date: circa 1929

Boy Scouts painting totem pole, Nanking, China
Boy Scouts painting a totem pole at a national rally in Nanking (Nanjing), China. The pole symbolises comradeship. Date: 1937

Boy Scouts perform Devil Dances, Nanking, China
Boy Scouts performing Devil Dances at a national rally in Nanking (Nanjing), China. They are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Chinese Republic. Date: 1937

U. S. Gunboat Panay abandoned
Crew members of the U, S.Gunboat Panay abandon ship. The gunboat had been bombed by Japanese aircraft while anchored in the Yangtze River, outside Nanking, China even though Japan and the U.S.A

Japanese armoured vehicles
Japanese tanks and armoured vehicles on the road to Nanking. Date: 1937

Japanese attack Nanking
Japanese artillery shell Nanking (Nanjing) from a street facing the South Gate, with infantry waiting to move in to the city. Date: 1937

Chinese bridge bombed
A bridge near Canton is bombed by Japanese aircraft. The bridge carried the railway from Canton to Wuchang, near Nanking. Date: November 1937

China Nanjing
River Chang (formerly Yangtse) at Nanjing, showing the bridge and the Porcelain Pagoda, the Temple of Gratitude, which will be heavilg damaged in 19th century wars. Date: circa 1835

China - Shanghai - Nanjing Road - General View Date: circa 1907

China - Shanghai - Nanjing Road - Tea House Date: circa 1910s

China - Shanghai - Nanjing Road - Looking down the street. Date: circa 1930

China - Shanghai - Nanjing Road - Rickshaws and shops Date: circa 1907

China - Shanghai - Nanjing Road - At night Date: circa 1920s

Shanghai, China - The Nanjing Road at Night
Shanghai, China - The Nanjing Road at night - one of the main shopping street of Shanghai and is one of the worlds busiest shopping streets. Date: circa 1910s

Rickshaw on the Nanjing Road (The Maloo) - Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1920

Chinese from Nanking admire Koshu fan. Japanese print shows two Chinese men admiring a folding fan from Koshu (Hangzhou, China). Date 1860. Chinese from Nanking admire Koshuo fan

Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, China - Soldier Statues
Soldier Statues - grave monuments at the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the tomb of the Hongwu Emperor and founder of the Ming Dynasty

One of the main gates of Nanking, China, at the time that the city was captured by revolutionaries. The Qing Dynasty was overthrown in October 1911, the last imperial dynasty of China

Nanjing Tower
The porcelain tower at Nanjing (formerly Nanking) : it was largely destroyed by Taeping rebels in the 1850s but is currently under reconstruction

Rickshaws in Shanghai
A busy street scene on the Nanking Road, Shanghai, China, showing rickshaws outside the Cathay Hotel

Japanese at Nanking
Nanking : Japanese forces approach the city by boat

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