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Chinatown, New York City - Chinese New Year – Antique Wall Art

Chinatown, New York City - Chinese New Year, [between 1909 and 1913] — historic photograph
Chinatown, New York City - Chinese New Year, [between 1909 and 1913]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Chinatown, New York City - Chinese New Year comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Chinese New Year is the event this print records, set in New York's Chinatown in the years just before 1913. George Grantham Bain, a news photographer whose agency supplied pictures to newspapers, made many of the city's street scenes in this period, and his collection at the Library of Congress preserves a view of a community that was then concentrated in a few blocks of lower Manhattan. Holiday celebrations there drew both residents and curious outsiders, and the catalog tags attached to the image point to religion, holidays, and the place of Chinese Americans in the United States. The date is given only as a range, so the exact occasion is not certain.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1913]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1920.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Religion; Geogr.; Holidays; Chinese in US.
SubjectsChinatown (New York, N.Y.)--1900-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145982

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