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Title
"1647 - Bulletin Board, Chinatown", postcard, 1909-12-11
Contributor
Mathews, Archie, recipient
Date Created and/or Issued
1909-12-11
Publication Information
Edward H. Mitchell
San Francisco
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
Workman-Temple Homestead Museum Collection, 1830-1930
Rights Information
5415 East Don Julian Road, City of Industry, California 91745
Copyright has not been assigned to the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum.
This collection is available for research upon request at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum. Send requests to the address or email given. Phone: (626) 968-8492
Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum
info@homesteadmuseum.org
Description
A colored photographic postcard, "1647 - Bulletin Board, Chinatown," Los Angeles, by Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco, postmarked 1909 December 11. The image is of a gathering of Chinese men near notices posted on the wall of a brick building in the Chinatown district of the city, now the site of Union Station. The reverse has the message, an address, the one-cent stamp, the postmark, and the cancellation stamp. The condition is good. From "C. A." to Archie Mathews, 209 Conamaugh Street, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA. "Do you think you could read those signs?" --first line.
Type
image
Format
1 postcard: color
application/pdf
postcards
Identifier
wthm-2006-190-1-1~01...~02
http://doi.org/10.25549/wthm-c116-64
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/wthm-2006-190-1-1~01.jpg
Language
English
Time Period
1909-12-11
Place
209 Conamaugh Street
Johnstown
Los Angeles
San Francisco
USA
Source
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum Collection, 1830-1930

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