Just recently, an unexpected email message led me to discover a new collection of photographs on wartime Shanghai. The William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University has released a very rich series of photographs taken in the late 1930s and early 1940s, presumably by Werner von Boltenstern (1904-1978), the initial donator of a million postcard collection to the university. The collection covers a wide variety of topics, including the everyday life of the refugee Jewish community, We...