Photographs of pre-revolution China, 1870-1946. Here is an amazing collection of vintage photographs taken in pre-revolution China, taken in Pre Deng XiaoPing period (1870-1946).
Chinese Family [c1875]
Attribution Unk
Greatwall China [1907] Herbert G. Ponting

Group Of Chinese Women With Fans, Canton, China
[c1880] Afong Lai
Boxer Prisoners Captured By 6th US Cavalry, Tientsin,
China [1901] Underwood & Co
Beggars, Beihai Park [c1917-1919]
Sydney D. Gamble
Cholon Actress, Cholon, Saigon, French Cochinchina
[c1900's]
Attribution Unk
Qing Court Return, The Emperess Dowerger [1902]
George E. Morrison
China, Manchu Ladies Of The Palace Being Warned To Stop Smoking
[c1910-1925] Frank & Frances Carpenter
Interior Canal, Canton, China [c1917-1919]
Sidney D. Gamble
Pekin, Walls Of The Tartar City [c1894-1896]
William H. Jackson
Muslim Bandits, Xinjiang, China
[c1915]
Marc Aurel Stein
Peking To Paris Autorace [1907]
Attribution Unk
Bride On Her Way To Wedding, Fuzhou Fujian China
[c1911-1913]
Ralph G. Gold
Bomb Protection [c1940]
Attribution Unk
Mouth Of Coal Mine In Mountain Ridge West Of Ta Chu, China
MAR [1909]
Thomas C. Chamberlin
Bridges By Which The Night Police Of The Roofs Cross The Streets,
Canton, China [1900]
Underwood & Co.
Chang The Chinese Giant [c1870]
Attribution Unk
Chinese Punishment, Whipping A Lawbreaker
[c1900]
Attribution Unk
Peking Mission School Children At Play,
The Dragon's Head, China [1902]
Carlton H. Graves Co
Foot Bound Girls, Liao Chow, Shansi, China [c1930]
IE Oberholtzer (Probable)
During The Famine Young Child Dying In The Gutter,
China [1946]
Geroge Silk
Taiwan Aborigines, Bunun Tribe, Formosa [c1900]
Attribution Unk
Empress Gobele Wan Rong [c1920-1940]
Attribution Unk
Toy Vendor, Chinatown, San Francisco [c1900s]
Arnold Genthe
Example Of A Coiffure On A Tartar Or Manchu Female,
Frontview, Peking, Pechili Province,
China [1869]
John Thomson
The Meridian Gate, Entrance To The Forbidden City,
Peking China [1927]
Herbert C. White
Black, Chinese
Frances Carpenter
Ulysses S. Grant & Li Hung Chang,
Tientsin, China [1879]
Attribution Unk
Jade Belt Bridge & Boat,
Summer Palace,
Peking, China
Sidney D. Gamble
Men Laden With Tea, Sichuan Sheng,
China
[1908]
Ernest H. Wilson
Imperial Gate Of The Imperial City,
Looking North,
Peking, China [1901]
Hawley C. White Co.
Family In Lanchow, China [1944]
Fr. Mark Tennien

Kampa Dzong, Tibet [1904]
John C. White
Forest Temple Near Chefoo, Shantung, China
[c1895]
William H. Jackson
Singing Girls, Hong Kong, China
[c1901]
Benjamin W. Kilburn Co.
A Boat On A River With Rolling Hills In The Background In
The Kiangsu Province Or Yunnan Province In China
[1946] Arthur Rothstein
Chinese Aviatrix Receives Gift Of New Plane
From Colonel Roscoe Turner,
Washington, D.C. [1939]
Harris & Ewing
Natives At Breakfast, Movable Chow Shop,
Canton, China [c1919]
Keystone View Co.
Rich Merchants Dining With Singing Girls,
Pekin, China
[c1901] Benjamin W. Kilburn
A Chinese Professor, China [c1919]
Keystone View Co.
Six Strongmen In Traditional Dress,
China [1909]
William Purdom
Cake Of Millet & Jujubes, Peking, China [1915]
Frank N. Meyer
The Harvard Houseboat, Kiating Fu, China [1908]
Ernest H. Wilson
Stele Pavilion, SacredWay, Ming Tombs, Peking, China
[c1900] Attribution Unk
Mercenary Artillerymen Supplied With Guns & Ammunition
By The British [c1880] Attribution Unk
Canton, China [c1880]
R.H. Brown
Flower Boats, Canton China [c1871]
Emil Rusfeldt
View Of An Old Village, Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong
[c1946]
Hedda Morrison
Kidnapped Girls, Foochow, China [1904] Attribution Unk
Yung Ting Men, Front View Of The Two Towers & The Barbican
[1924] Osvald Siren
Jeunes Filles Chinoises [c1901]
René Parison
Tibetan Lhacham, Tibet [c1879]
Sarat Chandra Das
Bowl Shaped Objects Scattered Outside
A Building, Yunnan, China [1922]
Joseph F. C. Rock
Ching Yang Temple, Chentu, China [1908]
Ernest H. Wilson
Leuchtturm Im Cantonfluss [c1891]
C. R. Hager
Fisherman In Grand Canal By The East Gate, Peking, China [1907]
Herbert C. White Co.
Queen's Road On Chinese New Years Day, Hong Kong,
China [1902]
Carlton H. Graves
China, Kuan Hsien Temple [1908]
Ernest H. Wilson
Drache Am Schleusenrand Im Túngchou-Kanal, Peking,
Chihli Province [c1906]
Ernst Boerschmann
Examination Hall With 7500 Cells, Canton, China [1873]
Attribution Unk
Der Industriebezirk Der Salzbrunnen, Tzeliutsing, Szechúan Province
[c1906] Ernst Boerschmann
Auf Der Reise Zum Kloster Des Himmelsknaben Bei Ningpo,
Ningpo-Tíen Túng Sze, Chekiang Province [c1906]
Ernst Boerschmann
Der Abt Des Klosters, Tíen túng sze, Chekiang Province [c1906]
Ernst Boerschmann
Young Mother Carrying A Child On Her Back In The Market,
Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
Produce & Wares From Shops Along The Sides Of A Typical Backstreet,
Western District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
Seated Man Amid Baskets Of Fish & Hanging Dried Fish,
Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
Produce & Wares From Shops Along
The Sides Of A Typical Backstreet,
Western District, Hong Kong Island [c1946] Hedda Morrison
House Interior Showing Woman With Bound Feet Tending
A Stove In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison
House Interior Showing A Woman At A Brick Stove,
A Bucket & A Ladle Made From
A Gourd In The Lost Tribe Country [1936] Hedda Morrison
Fisher Families With Junks In Aberdeen Harbor, Hong Kong Island [c1946]
Hedda Morrison
Men With Leopard At The Dongan Mission, China [1932]
Fr. Otto Rauschenbach
China's Common Carrier, Her Substitute For Railways,
A Camel Square In Peking, China [1901] Underwood & Co
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