The Early Shanghai Photographs of Pierre Gendron

By Tina Kanagaratnam | July 12th, 2020 | Buildings, Concession Era, French Concession, Huxinting Teahouse, Nanjing Road, Old Town, Rue du Consulat, Shanghai Photography, Shanghai Photography, Shanghai streets, Sikhs in Shanghai | 0 Comment

Sometime between the 1880s and early 1900s, a Frenchman named Pierre Gendron photographed Shanghai. And miraculously, his glass stereoscopic slides, some of the earliest photographs of Shanghai in existence, have survived. As a banker based in Hué (which was then French Indochina), Pierre traveled throughout the region—to ...