Nice Streetview In Tainan Taiwan through time

Tainan 1871–2015 5 photos of this spot

5 photographs taken at the same spot in Tainan, spanning 1871–2015 — 4 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Photographed by the Scottish photographer John Thomson during his 1871 expedition to Formosa, this image shows coastal fortifications along the waterfront near Tainan, Taiwan. Thomson's Formosa series remains among the earliest photographic documentation of the island's southern coast.

EU: Takow forts on the waterfront, John Thomson (1871) 1871 Photographed by the Scottish photographer John Thomson during his 1871 expedition to Formosa, this image shows coastal fortifications along the waterfront near Tainan, Taiwan. Thomson's Formosa series remains among the earliest photographic documentation of the island's southern coast.

EU: an open expanse of water to Taku Fort, John Thomson (1871) 1871 This 1871 photograph by John Thomson captures a broad stretch of water leading toward Taku Fort on the Formosan coast near Tainan, Taiwan, part of his pioneering photographic survey of the island during his travels through East Asia.

EU: Fort Zeelandia, Formosa by John Thomson, (1871) 1871 Fort Zeelandia, seen here in an 1871 photograph by John Thomson, was built by the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth century near present-day Tainan, Taiwan, and later became the stronghold besieged during Koxinga's conquest of Formosa.

EU: A grassy clearing surrounded by trees, Taiwan-fu, Formosa (1871) 1871 A grassy clearing bordered by trees near Taiwan-fu, the old name for Tainan, Taiwan, was captured by John Thomson in 1871, offering a rare glimpse of the countryside surrounding Formosa's historic provincial capital.

Nice Streetview In Tainan Taiwan 2015 A street view captured in Tainan, Taiwan in 2015. Tainan is the island's oldest city, founded as a Dutch colonial settlement in the 17th century and later the capital of Qing-era Taiwan.