Shanghai in 1873

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Brittany Hite, Photos: What Shanghai Looked Like 140 Years Ago. China Real Time, May 2, 2014.
blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/05/02/what-shanghai-looked-like-140-years-ago/
("A set of photographs from the late 19th century auctioned off by Sotheby’s earlier this week for £146,500 ($247,000)  * * * The photographs include a 13-part panorama of Shanghai’s bund, taken around 1873 by British photographer Henry Cammidge, that measures over three meters in length. The lot also features 25 other photographs taken of the city and of nearby Suzhou around the same time. 'It’s wonderful it survived at all,' Richard Fattorini, director of the printed books, manuscripts and topographical photographs section of Sotheby’s, told official news agency Xinhua")

Note:
(a) I select the WSJ blog over Xinhua, because the latter does not include any photo.

Rare Shanghai panorama to be auctioned in London. Xinhua, Apr 27, 2014.
news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-04/27/c_126437739.htm
(b) The photo album of this WSJ report contains five photos, the last being the complete panorama of the previous four.

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Another photo in the auction (no need to read the text):

Rare 19th-century Bund panorama auctioned off for US$246,500 with other old photos. Shanghai Daily, Apr 30, 2014.
www.shanghaidaily.com/metro/ente ... hotos/shdaily.shtml

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Yet another photo:

Sotheby's, Apr 29, 2014 | 10:30 AM BST (auction time) | London. www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/eca ... l14401/lot.196.html

Note: BST stands for British Summer Time
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time