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Image ID17896
TitleShanghai Club on the Bund
CollectionVirtual Shanghai
LocationShanghai IS
Year1886
Date1886
Caption in album or on mountHandwritten captions: 'view No.1', English Club', 'Russell & Co merchant', 'Hong Kong and Shanghai bank', 'This view shows the first part [?] of the Bund next to the French Bund. Between [?] the trees on the right and the river are the grass preserves which run all the way along the Bund next to the river nearly a mile in length. Shanghai 1886'
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Note(s)From left to right, the main structures are: Shanghai Club, Russel & Co. and far in the back Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. The Shanghai Club was the most exclusive club in Shanghai. It was established in 1864 firstly as a four-storeyed building in the so-called 'East-India style' (or neo-colonial). The old building was demolished in 1908. The new Club opened in 1911 as a seven-storyed building in Neo-classical style. The main marble-floored hall, over 40 feet high, has six Ionic columns which would have fitted right in with London's club scene. On the upper floors were a card room, a writing room, dining room, a ballroom, and above that a number of bedrooms for resident members. All floors were linked by twin elevators which ascended in the middle of the curving marble staircase. The club was most famous for its Long Bar, reputedly the longest in the world. Source: North-China Herald, Feb 20, 1909, pp. 433-4, 453-4; Jan 13, 1911, pp. 61, 77-81
Keyword(s) [en]building ; bank ; club ; tree ; road ; leisure ; entertainment ; Bund
Street nameBund
URLhttp://www.chia.chinesemuseum.com.au/objects/D001625.htm
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