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[Japanese man with a bicycle with a child in a box on the back, in Preston, Calif.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Japanese man with a bicycle with a child in a box on the back, in Preston, Calif.] — historic photograph
[Japanese man with a bicycle with a child in a box on the back, in Preston, Calif.]. Historic photograph from the Bicycles 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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Step back in time with [Japanese man with a bicycle with a child in a box on the back, in Preston, Calif.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Japanese man with a bicycle with a child in a box on the back, in Preston, Calif.]

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A man pedaling a bicycle with a small child riding in a box on the back sets this August 1924 view apart from other pictures of bicycles. The record places it in Preston, California, but it does not name the man or the child, so their identities remain unknown. The photograph was made months after Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924, which barred immigration from Japan, so an everyday scene of family life from that period carries more weight than its simple subject suggests.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1924 Aug. 11.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bicycles--California; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,184 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127353

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