4 Months of War, Shanghai, 1937 [Photograph Album]

Album of black and white photographs depicting Shanghai, China during the invasion of Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War (August 13-November 26, 1937).

In Collection:

• Military History Collection

Subject

• Buildings--Blast effects
• Buildings--War damage
• Cities and towns
• Refugees
• Civilians in war
• Evacuation of civilians
• War casualties
• Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
• Urban warfare
• Soldiers

Date created

• 1937

Resource type

• Text
• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 45 pages ; 19 x 27 cm

Geographic Coverage

• China--Shanghai

Coordinates

• 31.22222, 121.45806

Additional physical characteristics

• Tissue inserted between each page.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Military History Collection

Provenance

• Gift of Bev Ashforth, January 2025

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• captions
• photographs
• photograph albums

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2025-010

Fonds title

• Ashforth family collection

Fonds identifier

• SC714

Is referenced by

• Special Collections Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/ashforth-family-collection

Date digitized

• December 2025

Technical note

• Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600DPI tiff (1/15; 251; bent5; camera height 900) by LG. Metadata by KD and SC.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/9zc8-bq52