Two girls with balloons [Chinatown] – Antique Print
![Two girls with balloons [Chinatown], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/20/20948f9b995d-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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Two girls with balloons [Chinatown] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Two girls with balloons [Chinatown]
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Two girls stand in San Francisco's Chinatown, each holding a balloon, and the setting is what sets this picture apart from the many street portraits Arnold Genthe made of the neighborhood. Genthe, a German-born photographer, spent years in Chinatown in the early 1900s, and his images of its residents and streets became some of the most widely reproduced views of the district before the 1906 earthquake and fire. The record gives no date, so the exact year of the exposure is unverified, but the children's relaxed poses and the simple toys suggest a casual moment on a city street rather than a staged studio portrait.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Arnold Genthe. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Children; Balloons. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 720 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158242 |
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