— 360doc Victor Segalen in Sichuan and more
— AGSL Digital Photo Archive Asia and Middle East American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin
— An American in China Gould Hunter Thomas
— Archival Collections of Asia Photographs: Asia Photographs at Harvard An article by Raymond Lum
— Asia The National Archives UK – World through a lens
— Asia Pacific Photography National Gallery of Australia
— Asia Photography Archive Preserving the photographic heritage of India and Asia
— Asian and Pacific Studies – Historical Photographs Database compiled by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek
— Beijing of Dreams The Chinese History of Science and Culture Foundation
— Bo lan Zhonghua tu zhi (Herbert Francis Brady albums) The J. Paul Getty Trust
— 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 in WW2 A blog about the 1931-45 Sino-Japanese conflict that shaped modern Asia
— ‘China 1944’ and ‘China Old and New’ Photographs by Dr. Clinton C. Millett
— China 1974-76 Slides by Michael Rank
— ‘The China Incident’ Presbyterian Archives Research Centre
— The China Marines (1818-1949)
— The China Marines (1905-1949)
— China Postcard (flickr)
— China Rhyming Paul French’s blog
— China Through the Eyes of CIM Missionaries
— China Underground Historical and contemporary imagery
— China’s Wings Gregory Crouch – CNAC China National Aviation Corporation
— The Chinese Revolution, 1927 Henry Sara photographs, at University of Warwick
— Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period Heidelberg University
— Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia Some of these photographs were taken in China
— Clues to the past: The lost Sino-Japanese war photos Photographs collected by Zou Dehuai
— 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)
— Database of Taiwanese Old Photos
— DBHKer Surviving pre-WW2 architecture
— 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 magazines Heidelberg University
— Early Chinese Photographs Northwestern University, USA
— East Asia Image Collection Lafayette College Libraries
— Edwards Bangs Drew Chinese Maritime Customs Service Photographs Harvard College
— Early Photography of China Collection The 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop; Stephan and Jacob Loewentheil. Includes the Ernst Boerschmann archive (architecture)
— Everyday Life in Maoist China
— Everyone is free to see our civilization (Shuge)
— Faces of Tientsin, 1946. Photographs by Harold Giedt (Old China Hands)
— Fan Ho 1931-2016 Hong Kong photographer whose work has “lyrical beauty, dramatic power, and poetic grandeur”
— FOTOE A stock photograph library, includes historical images
— Francis E. Stafford photographs, 1909-1933 Stanford University Libraries
— The Frederick Williamson Collection
— Friends of Sir Robert Hart Mary Tiffen’s site (See the Carrall collection on HPC)
— The Giles Pickford Collection Australian National University
— Goodbye, Yan’an Second World War photographs by Michael Lindsay
— Gwulo: Old Hong Kong Over 17,000 pages about old Hong Kong
— Haldore Hanson’s China Collection (1937-1938)
— Hedda Morrison photographic collection Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
— The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946 Harvard College
— Hedda Morrison’s China China Heritage Quarterly
— Historic Shanghai (on Instagram)
— Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896-1920
— 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 In The 1950s Captured By A Teenager (Fan Ho)
— Hong Kong War Diary 1941 defence of Hong Kong
— Inside Red China Photographs by Robert Carl Cohen, 1957 to 1978
— The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
— International Mission Photography Archive University of Southern California
— Joconde
— John Thomson’s China Wellcome Collection
— John Van Antwerp MacMurray Papers Princeton University Library
— 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
— Macau Antigo A blog about old Macau
— 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 Grindley Photography of China
— Nicholas Kitto Hong Kong photographer, exploring treaty port architecture
— Nineteenth-Century Chinese Photography Terry Bennett’s site
— Old China (flickr)
— Old Photographs Fever – The Search for China’s Pictured Past BBC Radio 4 documentary about the HPC project
— Oldshanghaipaul Images from China Rhyming on Instagram
— Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Some China images by Wilhelm Burger
— 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
— Photos of Shanghai During the First Half of the 20th Century (China Smack)
— Pinterest Albert Kahn, and more
— Reg Murphy in China Slides by Reginald Murphy
— 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) and E.H. Wilson.
— School of Oriental and African Studies Digital Archives and Special Collections Digital archives
— Serve the People! Slides by William A. Joseph
— Shackford Collection of Photographs of China
— 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
— Sikhs in Shanghai A blog by Meena Vathyam
— Sir Robert Hart Photograph 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
— Taiwan Pictures Digital Archive Over 7000 historical images of Formosa (Taiwan)
— Tess in Shanghai Tess Johnston’s site
— 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
— A Tour of Old Canton Presbyterian Archives Research Centre
— Trans Asia Photography Review Journal
— 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, Jamie Carstairs and guest bloggers)
— Wattis Fine Art Details of some photographers who worked in China
— Werner von Boltenstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection (1937-49, especially Jewish community)
— Werner von Boltenstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection – crowdsourcing project
— Yang, Etudiant Ouvrier en 1920 See images in ‘Documents’
— Yuezhong Museum of Historical Images (MoHI) Shezhen, China
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