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[Lantern slide of Chinatown scene, ca. 1896, by Arnold Genthe] – Historic Print

[Lantern slide of Chinatown scene, ca. 1896, by Arnold Genthe] — historic print
[Lantern slide of Chinatown scene, ca. 1896, by Arnold Genthe]. Historic print 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Lantern slide of Chinatown scene, ca. 1896, by Arnold Genthe]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A lantern slide of a San Francisco Chinatown street scene, dated to about 1896, is the work of Arnold Genthe, the German-born photographer who spent much of his early career documenting the neighborhood. Lantern slides were glass positives projected onto screens for audiences in lecture halls and parlors, so this image was meant to be seen by a crowd rather than held in the hand. Genthe later became known for his portraits and his photographs of the 1906 earthquake, but his Chinatown work is valued for its record of daily street life in the 1890s.

Medium1 item.
Notes[ca. 1896]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,081 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125030

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