Hankou, Spring 2019

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• S.W. Lintvinoff & Co.'s Tea Factory
• International Press on Japanese Air Raid
• Soliders Learning Campaign Strategy
• Japanese outside General Chiang Kai-Shek's Former Headquarters
• Molachanoff. Pechatnoff & Co.
• Evacuee boys in Wuhan
• Hanyang Ironworks, Hankow
• Map of Battle for Xuzhou and Defense of Wuhan, 1938
• Big Character Posters
  During the "July 2nd" fighting incident in Wuhan, Hubei province, in which over 84,000 people were injured or killed. This image shows two days after the incident, where big character posters posted by various factions still hang on street corners. [湖北省武汉市武爗发“七。二〇”斗事件中，被打伤残打死者达是八万四千余人。图为事件发生后两天，街头仍有各派张贴的大字报.]
• Protesters in the streets of Wuhan, the banner says "Wuhan Rebels long to see Chairman Mao again" [武汉造反派想念毛主席]
  七二〇事件”前后武汉街头的一个场面
• Wuhan Red Guards stand on street corner distributing propaganda on destroying the four olds
• Wuhan University Students and Teachers gather in the school yard to criticize the plenary session and the so-called Sanjiacun (troika?)
• Kill the bastard Chen Zaidao as a sacrifice to the souls of our brave martyrs! [杀陈再到狗头祭我烈士英灵!]
• Overthrow Peng Dehuai, Luo Ruiqing, Chen Zaidao, Liao Laotan!
  Peng Dehuai is the best known among the people attacked here. He was Marshal of the People's Liberation Army, and criticized Mao during the Great Leap Forward. In 1966 he is arrested and maltreated. He dies in captivity in 1974. Luo Ruiqing, Chief of Staff of the PLA, attempts suicide after being accused and maltreated, but survives and is rehabilitated in 1975. This poster was published in Wuhan.
• The Chinese people have high aspirations
• Closely follow the great leader Chairman Mao and forge ahead courageously amid great storms and waves - Celebrate the Shanghai movement to swim the Yangzi river to commemorate the third anniversary of Chairman Mao's good swim in the Yangzi river on July the sixteenth.
• Learn from the valiant standard-bearer of the Great Cultural Revolution, comrade Jiang Qing, and pay her respect!
  This is one of the very few posters on which Jiang Qing is glorified herself, without any reference to Mao. It was jointly published by the following organizations: Head Department of Literature and Art (Hubei) Literature and Art Revolutionary Department (Wuhan) Minorities Academy (Zhongnan). Faculty of Chinese. Revolutionary Committee Wuhan Normal Academy. Faculty of Chinese. Revolutionary Committee Steel Works Assembled Cities Literature and Art Department Xinhu Art Revolutionary Committee Huazhong Normal Academy. Faculty of Chinese. Revolutionary Committee
• Savagely attack to hurt the rightists elements, to protect the results of socialism!
• Overlooking the Hanyang Railyard with Hankou in the background
  Set of 16 postcards depicting three cities (Hanyang, Hankou and Wuchang) of Hubei Province, China. Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
• Hanyang Ironworks
  Set of 16 postcards depicting three cities (Hanyang, Hankou and Wuchang) of Hubei Province, China. Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
• Hankow (Foreign Settlement)
  The foreign settlement there has a frontage to the Yangtsze, but the plot of ground on which it has been built is unfortunately lower than that occupied by the native town. Why this site should have been selected it is impossible to tell. The mistake is one which the natives themselves would never have committed, and it has entailed great suffering during times of flood.
• Hankou Bund, 1865
  Potentially the oldest available photograph of the Hankou bund, the plane trees are notably still small.
• Hankou Japanese Consulate and Mitsubishi Company Residence [日本领事馆及三菱公司住宅 ]
• American Warehouse, Hankow, China
  1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
• British Consulate, Hankow