Images of old Taiwan
I would like to announce a new website — Vintage Formosa — featuring 1,000 historical photos of Taiwan. It is hosted at the easy to remember domain name of www.taipics.com. The photos were collected by taipeimarc and I have hosted them on my server.
Photos of Formosa from LIFE
Images of Taiwan Railways
Comics chronicle the history of Formosa
Lost in Keelung
Changing visas
Mandarin ChinesePosted: March 27th, 2008 under Blogs & websites, Photos, Taiwan.
Tags: history
Comments
Comment from David Reid
Time March 27, 2008 at 11:12 am
Thanks David. Most of the images are from the Japanese colonial era so people can gain a greater appreciation of what Taiwan was like at that time.
Comment from Todd
Time March 27, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Wow, what a collection! I’ll have to give this a longer browsing after work… Great work David and Marc!
Comment from David Reid
Time March 27, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Thanks Todd and Poagao. I should add a link to Scott Cog’s past and present composites set at flickr. It compares old postcards and photos with what buildings look like in the present.
Comment from Kaminoge
Time March 27, 2008 at 10:18 pm
What an amazing collection of material! Much thanks to you and Marc for making them available.
Comment from Cary Allen
Time March 29, 2008 at 3:07 am
Great collection. Well done!
Comment from nostalgiphile
Time March 31, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Pretty damned cool, David. Thx for sharing. I was actually browsing around in TW-BBS this morning and ran across this thread on Hsimen Ting, ca. 1971 (1971年的西門町街頭).
Comment from marc
Time April 1, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Nosta: Those Hsimenting photos came from a US military guy’s website: http://members.tripod.com/Shulinkou/ShimaDing.html
BTW1: If you go up a level to here: http://members.tripod.com/shulinkou/Dawg1.html - There are many more cool photos from the 70s to be found. (links towards the bottom). You can find this link on the taipics.com site also if you want to reference later. (MAAG LinkouNavy)
BTW2: There is another good 1960s overview pic of the Hsimenting area here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrpibbs/2329422282/
Comment from marc
Time April 1, 2008 at 10:52 pm
oops, sorry the link on the taipics page is labeled: MAAG ShuLinkou
Comment from David Huang
Time March 27, 2008 at 11:02 am
I am absolutely gobbsmacked by those photos of vintage Taiwan. All I remembered during my childhood years were about “China” in terms of history class.