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[San Francisco Chinatown, 1900?: street market scene; 2 boys facing camera] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[San Francisco Chinatown, 1900?: street market scene; 2 boys facing camera], [1900?] — historic photograph
[San Francisco Chinatown, 1900?: street market scene; 2 boys facing camera], [1900?]. Historic photograph from the San Francisco 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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Two boys stand facing the camera amid a crowded street market in San Francisco's Chinatown, their direct gaze setting this scene apart from the more distant street views that often accompany it. The photograph is credited to Arnold Genthe, the German-born photographer who spent years documenting the neighborhood's streets, merchants and residents around the turn of the century. Genthe later published many of these images in his book *Pictures of Old Chinatown* (1908). The record dates the print to about 1900, a date that remains uncertain, but the district it shows was largely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Created / published[1900?]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Arnold Genthe. Genthe Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Master photographs; Ca.--S.F.--Chinatown; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,194 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131807

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