Yu-Yan, Chechiang province, c.1877

Title : Yu-Yan, Chechiang province, c.1877

Topic : Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Location : Unknown

Date (start) : 1870

Estimated dates : 1877

Nature : B&W Photo

Support image : Paper

Caption on support : 43. Am. Baptist Mission house & Dr Parker’s Hospital, Man of War Reach, Ningpo.

Information data : University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: bo02-047. Photo from an album (UoB reference bo02) kept at the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London (RSAA reference RSAA/SC/BOW/2). Am = American. The handwritten caption (43. Am. Baptist Mission house & Dr Parker’s Hospital, Man of War Reach, Ningpo) on a list in the album is incorrect. It may refer to another photograph, which is not pasted in the album. This photograph is reproduced in 'The Face of China 1860-1912' by L. Carrington Goodrich & Nigel Cameron, p110, with the caption 'Thomas Childe: Cityscape, c1877'. This is not a photograph by Thomas Child. Also reproduced in 'History of Photography in China 1861-1879' by Terry Bennett (page 152): Photograph by Major J.C. Watson, entitled 'The City of Yu-Yan'. Yu-Yan (Yuyao) is a city 40 km from Ningpo (Ningbo) in Chechiang (Zhejiang province). Photograph shows Tongji Bridge, and Yaojiang River.

Keywords : Bowra;Tongji;Yaojiang;Ningbo;Yuyao