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Chinatown, The Devil's Kitchen"" – Historic Reproduction

Chinatown, The Devil's Kitchen"", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Chinatown, The Devil's Kitchen"", [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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: Chinatown, The Devil's Kitchen"", preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Arnold Genthe, the German-born photographer known for his street portraits of San Francisco's Chinatown, made this print under a title that points to one of the neighborhood's rougher corners. "The Devil's Kitchen" was a nickname for a stretch of the district's alleys and tenements, a name that reflected how outsiders viewed the crowded quarter at the time. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year is uncertain, but Genthe worked there in the early 1900s, a period when the district's residents often faced harsh scrutiny from city officials and the press.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by Arnold Genthe. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,157 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158223

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