• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of a stone arch bridge on the Wusong Jiang (also known as Suzhou Creek), Shanghai, China

between 1860 and 1861, or 1870

- A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.

Albumen silver print

comp.: 25.5 x 33.7 cm secondary support: 52.5 x 36.0 cm

PH1981:0620:043

• exterior view

numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the print, l.l.: "50." inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink [?], on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "Chinese / collection [underlined]" [diagonally]; u.l. to u.c.: "Hong Doo [?] Bridge Soochow Creek / 50 [?] Bridge from Shanghai"; and u.r.: "To Follow [cut off] / + [illeg.][by] 5 blank [pages] [underlined twice] / #50 / + to follow [illeg.] after [illeg.]" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "5" [cut off]

Shanghai; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• river
• sampans
• buildings
• boats
• arch bridge
• footpath