Chinatown, N.Y.C. - Chinese New Year feast, Feb. 2, 1916 – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Chinatown, N.Y.C. - Chinese New Year feast, Feb. 2, 1916. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chinatown, N.Y.C. - Chinese New Year feast, Feb. 2, 1916
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The title places this photograph at a New Year feast in New York's Chinatown on February 2, 1916, a date that fell at the turn of the Lunar New Year. In that decade, Manhattan's Chinatown was a small, densely settled community centered on a few streets in the Five Points area, and its family associations and merchant groups often marked the holiday with shared meals and celebrations. Photographs of Chinatown from these years were frequently made by outside photographers, so they show how the neighborhood was seen by visitors as much as how residents saw themselves.
| Created / published | 1916 Feb. 2. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Subjects | Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,232 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137560 |
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