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Bernath Mss 47
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Title: Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. Photograph Album,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1860s-1875
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 47
Creator:
Shanghai Steam Navigation Co.
Extent:
.3 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur Oversize
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
Leatherbound photograph album with 125 cartes-de-visite (cdv) and 6 cabinet size cards, including a signed and dated cdv of
Rutherford B. Hayes. Mainly images of employees, their wives and children, and people associated with the Shanghai Steam Navigation
Co., formed by Russell & Company in 1862, which became the leader in the American China trade and major importer of opium
into China. By 1874 Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. had 17 steamships, the largest fleet in Shanghai. In 1877 the company was
sold to China Merchant's Steam Navigation Company and the American share of Chinese shipping dropped dramatically.