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Chinese Mercantile Houses, Dupont Street, San Francisco – Vintage Photo Print

Chinese Mercantile Houses, Dupont Street, San Francisco, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Chinese Mercantile Houses, Dupont Street, San Francisco, [published 1866]. 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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Chinese Mercantile Houses, Dupont Street, San Francisco comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Dupont Street, the thoroughfare later renamed Grant Avenue, is the setting for this 1866 stereograph of Chinese mercantile houses in San Francisco. By the 1860s the street ran through the heart of the city's growing Chinese quarter, where merchants ran import shops, provision stores, and offices serving the community. This print is the left half of a stereo pair from the *Gems of California Scenery* series, and the Library holds only this one image. Because stereographs were viewed through a hand-held viewer to create a three-dimensional effect, the paired images are the key to the original experience. The caption data comes from an old card and has not been fully verified.

Created / published[published 1866]
Medium1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
SubjectsThe Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 394. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco--Chinatown. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,474 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115878

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