Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. Photograph Album,
- Dates:
- ca. 1860s-1875
- Creators:
- Shanghai Steam Navigation Co.
- Extent:
- .3 linear feet (1 oversize box)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchase, 2003.
- Physical location:
- Del Sur Oversize
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2003
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid in EAD v. 1.0 derived from MS Word 2000 file by David C. Gartrell. Date of source: 25 June 2003 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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None.
- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
-
Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062