In 1941, 66 old photos of Chongqing, 80 years ago

This group of pictures was taken by American journalist Harrison Forman from Harrison Forman’s Chinese Photography Collection. The album contains 10308 photos, recording the people’s livelihood in Tibetan areas, the anti Japanese war, and the real life of China’s people’s livelihood before and after liberation. The shooting locations are Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Shanghai, Chongqing, Beijing, Shaanxi, Hong Kong, etc. The shooting time is from 1932 to 1973. This set is kept in the Milwaukee Library of the University of Wisconsin

As early as the early 1930s, Forman, a reporter from the United Press and the London Times, first came to Tibet and made a lot of video records of this mysterious area. After that, Shanghai after the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War (1937) was recorded in detail. In 1943, Forman and foreign journalists in Chongqing initiated the establishment of the Association of Foreign Journalists in China. In 1944, Forman, on behalf of the United Press and the Times, came to the anti Japanese base areas behind the enemy lines, such as the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Border Region, as a member of the Chinese and foreign press delegation, and conducted a five month interview

Harrison· Foreman is a friend that the Chinese people cannot forget

There are nearly 600 photos of Chongqing in Harrison Forman’s Chinese Photography Collection. This group of photos selected 66 of them to share with you. The shooting time was 1941-1943, when Chongqing was still the capital. Let’s take a look at the beautiful landscape and cultural landscape of Chongqing at that time