[Chinese in Chinatown, San Francisco]: The butcher – Historic Reproduction
![[Chinese in Chinatown, San Francisco]: The butcher, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a6/a6164938aa27-L.webp)
(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: [Chinese in Chinatown, San Francisco]: The butcher, 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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[Chinese in Chinatown, San Francisco]: The butcher
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Arnold Genthe, a German-born photographer who worked in San Francisco's Chinatown in the early twentieth century, made this print of a butcher at work, one of a series he titled as studies of occupations. The record gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but Genthe's Chinatown pictures were made around the 1896 to 1906 period, before the 1906 earthquake and fire reshaped the neighborhood. Genthe's photographs of workers and shopkeepers offer a close look at daily commerce in a community that outsiders often viewed through stereotype.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Arnold Genthe. No. 174. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Occupations. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140119 |
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