The passenger steamer 'Admiral Tirpitz' enters the port of Tsingtau. In the background lies the battleship S. M. S. 'Fürst Bismarck' in the floating dock / Photographer: Scherl

The mail steamer is unloaded at the port of Tsingtau. / Photographer: Scherl

Contains among other things: Establishment of a direct Tsingtaus steamboat connection with the Yalu estuary for the transport of raw material for silk production from Manchuria (application by the German-Chinese Silk Industry Society), (1903) 1904 Attacks on the German administration in Kiautschou in the Chinese press, 1904 Railway construction projects of the Chinese-German Tschunghsiang Coal Society of Ihsien in Schantung ("Ihsien Society") and question of German concession rights in the province of Schantung, 1904 customs collection procedure in Tsingtau, 1904

A ship has moored at the loading bridge of Tsingtau in the bay of Kiautschou / Photographer: Scherl

Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia leaves the steamer 'Prinz Eitel-Friedrich' in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the German Schutztruppe in front of the signal station of Tsingtau with training flags. / Photographer: Scherl

The newly built station of Tsingtau with a train of the Schantung-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft / Photographer: Scherl

During the Russian-Japanese War: The wounded admiral of the Russian battleship 'Zesarevich' is transported to a German hospital in Tsingtau. Photographer: Scherl

The governor of Shandong, Yang shy hsiang, visits the Chinese port city of Tsingtau and visits the port there. Here you can see the departure from the pier on sand wagons. / Photographer: Scherl