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Street of the gamblers (by day) – Vintage Photo Print

Street of the gamblers (by day), [1898] — historic photograph
Street of the gamblers (by day), [1898]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures Street of the gamblers (by day) in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The title's qualifier, "by day," sets this view apart: it shows the street known for its gambling houses in full daylight, with the crowds and storefronts visible rather than the lamplit scenes that dominate popular accounts of Chinatown. Arnold Genthe, a German-born photographer who settled in San Francisco in 1895, made a long series of Chinatown pictures in the late 1890s, and related negatives with similar titles survive in the Library of Congress. His work captured a neighborhood that many outsiders knew mainly through rumor, and his street scenes give a plain record of how its daily life was lived in the open air.

Created / published[1898]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenreGelatin silver prints 1890-1900.
NotesRelated Genthe negatives with similar titles are filed in the Arnold Genthe Collection: Negatives and transparencies. Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 25 Forms part of: Arnold Genthe Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 347
SubjectsPedestrians--California--San Francisco--1890-1900. City & town life--California--San Francisco--1890-1900. Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,463 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217846

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