Children were the pride, joy, beauty, and chief delight of the quarter, Chinatown, San Francisco – Antique Print
![Children were the pride, joy, beauty, and chief delight of the quarter, Chinatown, San Francisco, [between 1896 and 1906] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1f/1fd7a724054d-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Children were the pride, joy, beauty, and chief delight of the quarter, Chinatown, San Francisco, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Children were the pride, joy, beauty, and chief delight of the quarter, Chinatown, San Francisco
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The title, "Children were the pride, joy, beauty, and chief delight of the quarter," comes from the photographer's own caption and sets the tone for a picture of Chinatown's young residents. Arnold Genthe, a German-born photographer who settled in San Francisco in the mid-1890s, made many portraits of the neighborhood's streets and families between about 1896 and 1906. His work from these years is valued today because it records Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed much of the district. Genthe's approach was sympathetic and attentive to daily life, so the picture offers a glimpse of the community as its own members lived it.
| Created / published | [between 1896 and 1906] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1910.Group portraits 1890-1910.Gelatin silver prints 1890-1910. |
| Notes | Arnold Genthe Collection (Library of Congress). Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / Arnold Genthe ; with text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, c1984, pl. 102. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997, [p. 371]. Unprocessed in PR 6 CN 347.71 |
| Subjects | Children--California--San Francisco--1890-1910. Chinese--Children--California--San Francisco--1890-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,000 × 3,951 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219082 |
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