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[Cal. - San Francisco - Chinatown: Children playing in an alley] – Vintage Wall Art

[Cal. - San Francisco - Chinatown: Children playing in an alley] — historic photograph
[Cal. - San Francisco - Chinatown: Children playing in an alley]. 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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A window into the past: [Cal. - San Francisco - Chinatown: Children playing in an alley], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Cal. - San Francisco - Chinatown: Children playing in an alley]

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Children at play in a narrow alley set this view apart from the street-level scenes of San Francisco's Chinatown that the board shows elsewhere. The record dates it to the 1890s, a period when the neighborhood was densely packed with tenements and family businesses, and when the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 shaped who lived there. Alleys like this one served as informal playgrounds, and the picture offers a rare glimpse of everyday childhood in a community often seen in photographs only as streets and storefronts.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[189-?]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122879

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