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Title: Chinese camp at A.A. Cohen's place
Date Created and/or Issued: 1897
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2018-0761.
Also have negatives: GL2466 (5x7 in.); and, no. 19,505 (4x5 in.)
Born in 1829 in London, England to Andrew Cohen and Hannah (Oppenheim) Cohen. Immigrated to Canada and then the West Indies in 1845; came to California in 1849. Settled, initially, in Sacramento, moving to San Francisco in 1852; then to Alameda in 1859. In 1863, formed San Francisco & Alameda Railroad; in 1865, acquired the San Francisco & Oakland Railroad; by 1869, both railroads acquired by Central Pacific RR for which Cohen served as attorney. Died in 1887.
Shows Chinese men beside barn (?), flock of chickens amid boxes and barrels.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 5 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001626707CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Cohen, Alfred A.. (Alfred Andrew),, 1829-1887--Homes and haunts--California--Alameda--Photographs
Chinese Americans--California--Alameda--Photographs
Pioneers--California--Alameda
Ranches--California--Alameda
Alameda (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Alameda
Alameda (Calif.)

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