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Title
Chinese emigration to America: sketch on board the steam-ship Alaska, bound for San Francisco
Creator
Illustrated London News, publisher
Contributor
Kemble, John Haskell, 1912-1990, donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1876-04-29
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image shows food being served and eaten by Chinese emigrants between decks. Reprinted a month later in Harper's Weekly, May 20, 1876. "LR or RL"--signature, lower right corner of image. "A 15"--in ms., in pencil, upper right corner of sheet. "40- ixgA"--on mat, in ms., in pencil, lower right corner.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
Print ; image 34 x 50.3 cm (13 3/8 x 19 13/16 in.) ; overall 40 x 54 cm (15 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.)
Identifier
priJHK 00208
333754
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/22007
Subject
Emigration and immigration--Pictorial works
Immigrants--California--Pictorial works
California--Emigration and immigration--19th century
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Illustrations
Source
John Haskell Kemble Collection
Prints
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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