[Montana - Missoula - Asian man smoking hop in a bunk] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Montana - Missoula - Asian man smoking hop in a bunk], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6d/6d12c5c31cc7-L.webp)
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A bunk in Missoula, Montana, is the setting for this undated print of an Asian man smoking "hop," a period slang term for opium. Its caption card carries the tracings "Narcotics" and "Asians in U.S.," which point to how such scenes were framed in the era. Opium smoking was common in Chinese labor communities across the American West during the late 1800s, and it drew growing hostility that led to federal restrictions, including the Smoking Opium Exclusion Act of 1909. The image comes from the Wittemann Collection, so its meaning depends as much on the viewpoint of its makers as on the moment it records.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Wittemann Collection. No. 1072. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Narcotics...; Asians in U.S. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 990 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155093 |
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