Shanghai. United States Consulate General.

Shanghai. United States Consulate General.

By the ports, there would be numerous American and European posts. As Whitman noticed, "the only thing to suggest China [was] the ever-present Chinese coolie and the signs in Chinese characters. Except for these two things we might have thought it an American or European port." A little farther, there was a British park in which Chinese people were not allowed to walk in.

“Shanghai. United States Consulate General.” Postcard., ca. 1926., Walter G. Whitman Collection, Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, Salem, Massachusetts.