The ‘Shanghai Jubilee’ referred to in the title is Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee which was celebrated throughout the empire and the treaty ports in 1897. Most of the photographs feature important houses and Jubilee decorations along the Bund, the prestigious boulevard along the waterfront. Images include the British Consulate, the China Merchant Bank, Imperial Maritime Customs Building, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, as well as the Shanghai Club. Tuck Tai’s dates are still unknown, but he was a prominent Chinese photographer in Shanghai in the last twenty years of the 19th century and he became famous for his large panoramic views of the Bund. His studio was called De Tai zhao xiang guan and Tuck Tai is the Shanghai transliteration for the first two characters. Uncommon.
