c. 1875Shanghai
The Bund, Shanghai
Lai Afong. Catalog date circa 1875. The file name says c. 1870.
Elevated photograph
c. 1875·Shanghai
The Bund, Shanghai
Lai Afong. Catalog date circa 1875. The file name says c. 1870.
Elevated photograph · Replaced
What this plate shows
An elevated photograph of a waterfront: sampans, a creek and footbridges, a low line of buildings, a spire in the distance, a tiled roof in the foreground. Catalogued as Lai Afong, the Bund, Shanghai, circa 1875. Not the masonry bank skyline that came later, and not a drawing.
- Image type
- Elevated photograph
- Structure
- The waterfront catalogued as the Bund.
- Region
- East Asia
- Present status
- Replaced — The later bank front along the Bund is a subsequent generation. It is not this picture. The date follows the catalog (circa 1875), not the filename.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of Lai Afong’s Bund view. The metadata date is circa 1875; the filename is earlier. Scale of that scan.
- License
- Public domain.