A companion to the Shanghai Kaleidoscope exhibition, Shanghai 1860 -1940: Historical Photographs provides an intimate glimpse of Shanghai in the late 19th and early 20th century, a rich yet tumultuous period in its history. Personal, powerful and poignant images chronicle a century of the city’s architecture, people and way of life up to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The exhibit includes images from the ROM’s extensive collections of historical photographs, including recent gifts by Joey and Toby Tanenbaum and Jacob Way and Amelia Gertrud Way- Evans, and 12 photographs by celebrated photographer Sam Tata (1911-2005) on loan from the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa. The exhibition will be presented in the Herman Herzog Levy Gallery.