– AGSL Digital Photo Archive Asia and Middle East American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin
– Asia The National Archives UK – World through a lens
– Asia Pacific Photography National Gallery of Australia
– Beijing of Dreams The Chinese History of Science and Culture Foundation
– Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China The Getty Research Institute
– Bucklin China Archive Photographs by Harold Bucklin
– China The National Archives UK – World through a lens
– ‘China 1944′ and ‘China Old and New’ Photographs by Dr. Clinton C. Millett
– China in Colour Retronaut (Chris Wild)
– China Postcard (flickr)
– China Rhyming Paul French’s blog
– China Underground Historical and contemporary imagery
– China’s Nineteenth Century Tea Trade Baker Library, Harvard Business School
– China’s Wings Gregory Crouch – CNAC China National Aviation Corporation
– Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan Shanghai Library (Photographs taken during the Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945)
– Dennis George Crow Specialist in historic China and Asian Photography
– Digital Silk Road National Institute of Informatics
– Durham Light Infantry 1920-1946 See ‘The China Album’
– Durham County Record Office Enter a keyword such as ‘China’ or ‘Chinese’, and tick the ‘Image Results Only’ box.
– Early Chinese Photographs Northwestern University, USA
– East Asia Image Collection Lafayette College Libraries
– Edwards Bangs Drew Chinese Maritime Customs Service Photographs Harvard College
– The Flying Tigers 69th DRS Association Shanghai, China – 1945 to 46
– FOTOE A stock photograph library, includes historical images
– Friends of Sir Robert Hart Mary Tiffen’s site (See the Carrall collection on HPC)
– The Giles Pickford Collection Australian National University
– Gwulo: Old Hong Kong Over 11,000 pages about old Hong Kong
– The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 Harvard College
– History, empire, China, and things found on the way Professor Robert Bickers’s blog
– History of Photography in China 1839 – ca.1911 Selected Annotated Bibliography The Getty Research Institute
– Hong Kong War Diary 1941 defence of Hong Kong
– International Mission Photography Archive University of Southern California
– John Thomson’s China Wellcome Collection
– Joseph Needham Photographs: Wartime China, 1942-1946 Needham Research Institute
– Kent Photo Archive Maidstone Museum
– Luella Delamarte Dawson Photographs of China University of Delaware
– Ma famille à Shanghai au temps des concessions The foreign concessions in Shanghai, 1920s – 30s
– Mellerick Album Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia
– Mind the gap(s) Ein Streifzug durch die China-Blogosphäre China blogosphere 1
– Mind the gap(s) Die China-Blogosphäre (II) China blogosphere 2
– Musée Français de la Photographie Search for ‘Chine’
– National Media Museum Photographs by Beato and Thomson, inter alia
– New York Public Library Digital Gallery New York Public Library (Many images, including photographs)
– Nicholas Kitto Hong Kong photographer, exploring treaty port architecture
– Old China (flickr)
– Osvald Siren Collection California Museum of Photography
– Photography of China This blog includes old and new images, also interviews and a good list of links
– The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China Harvard College
– Robert Henry Chandless Photographs University of Washington
– Royal Geographical Society Picture Library For example, search for ‘China’ in ‘Historical Collection’. Includes photographs by Mrs Isabella Lucy Bishop, née Bird
– Shanghai 1937 Photographs by Karl Kengelbacher
– Shanghai Street Stories Photojournalism and street photography of Shanghai
– Shanghai That Was (before 1939) (flickr)
– Shanghailander ’The blog about old Shanghai’
– Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Duke University
– Sir Robert Hart Collection Queen’s University Belfast
– SOAS Archive Catalogue School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
– South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
– Tess in Shanghai Tess Johnston’s site
– The Terry Bennett Collection Nineteenth-century Chinese photography
– Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Photostream University of Toronto (flickr)
– Thomas H. Hahn Docu-images Gallery of documentary and historical photographs of China
– The Tibet Album British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950
– The Unlikely Shanghai Portrait Studio of Sam Sanzetti American Photo Magazine
– Villages Academica Sinica
– Virtual Beijing Institut d’Asie Orientale, University of Lyon
– Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time Institut d’Asie Orientale, University of Lyon
– Virtual Suzhou Institut d’Asie Orientale, University of Lyon
– Virtual Tianjin: Tianjin Under Nine Flags University of Bristol and Institut d’Asie Orientale, University of Lyon
– Virtual Wuhan Institut d’Asie Orientale, University of Lyon
– Virtual Xi’an Institut d’Asie Orientale, University of Lyon
– Visualising China University of Bristol
– Visualising China Blog University of Bristol (Robert Bickers and Jamie Carstairs)
– Wattis Fine Art Details of some photographers who worked in China
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