
SHANGHAI UYENO (HIKOMA) 'Shanghai, Taken from scaffold 160 feet high', [1893]
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Footnotes
Ueno (1838-1904) "operated one of the first and most successful studios in Japan" and "has iconic status" there, but in 1891 opened branches in Shanghai and Hong Kong (Bennett, Photography in Japan, pp.73-76).
"This panorama shows the Whangpoo and the Bund with Pootung (Pudong) in the background. It can be dated to early 1893, because the third section shows the new Customs House tower under construction, which was completed in mid-1893. The panorama was taken from the scaffolding on the newly built Trinity Church steeple which was the tallest structure in Shanghai until well into the twentieth century" (Crow, Old Shanghai's Bund, 2012, illustrated pp.69-70).