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[Mother and small daughter walking on sidewalk in Chinatown. San Francisco. Old ragged and faded handbills on wall in background] – Historic Print

[Mother and small daughter walking on sidewalk in Chinatown. San Francisco. Old ragged and faded handbills on wall in background], [189-] — historic photograph
[Mother and small daughter walking on sidewalk in Chinatown. San Francisco. Old ragged and faded handbills on wall in background], [189-]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Mother and small daughter walking on sidewalk in Chinatown. San Francisco. Old ragged and faded handbills on wall in background]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A mother and her small daughter walk along a Chinatown sidewalk, while behind them a wall is covered with old, torn, and faded handbills. The photograph is credited to Arnold Genthe, the German-born photographer who spent much of the 1890s photographing San Francisco's Chinatown and its streets. The record dates the picture only to the 189-, so the exact year is unconfirmed, but the weathered notices suggest a neighborhood where paper announcements were pasted up on walls. Genthe's street scenes like this one are valued for showing everyday family life that many visitors to Chinatown at the time did not stop to record.

Created / published[189-]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by Arnold Genthe. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mothers and children; Ca.--San Francisco--Chinatown; Photog. I.; MPh Colls. Cat.; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,187 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-146404

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