Vintage Shanghai

These photos of Shanghai, China date from the first half of the 20th century. I found them here.

Early 20th century, near the Hongkou market, where everyday were many 

local fishermen, peasant farmers, and butchers came to sell their goods

  

 1902, Shanghai Volunteer Corps proceeding along Nanjing Road, participating in a parade

  

 1906, Shanghai’s business street

  

 1907, workers for The Shanghai Electric Construction Co. Ltd. 

on Nanjing Road laying streetcar trolley rails

  

 1913, inside the International Savings Society on Shanghai’s Avenue Edward

  

 1927, a peddler selling cigarettes to foreign soldiers

  

 1930, Zhou Xuan (third from left), the star singer known as the "Golden Voice"

  

 1936 September 19, Chinese laborers on the docks unloading watermelons to be sold

  

 1947 June 1, a newsstand on the side of a Shanghai street

  

 1947 June 18, on the street from the central business district to the Bund public markets, a flock of sheep crossing the street causes road congestion in the morning, Shanghai

  

1947, a rickshaw puller, with a lot of advertisements visible on the commercial street, Shanghai