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Title: Market Street Chinatown
Creator: Hill, Andrew Putnam
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872-1887
Contributing Institution: History San Jose Research Library
Collection: History San Jose Online Catalog
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Description: Featured on page 23 of Connie Young Yu's "Chinatown, San Jose, U.S.A." with caption: San Jose resident William Vinton testifying in 1877 against the Chinese at the Joint Committee of the Two Houses of Congress on Chinese Immigration, stated: "Chinatown ocupies about a block...almost in the center of the town of San Jose. Its average population is about 1,000." Furthermore Vinton testified that on weekends a large number of Chinese employed on strawberry farms in Alviso came to Chinatown to "spend their time and money and Sunday."
Type: image
Format: Black & White
Identifier: 114774E9-BF7D-4180-8362-850854515346
1997-300-1166
Subject: Nineteenth century (LCSH)
Chinatown (San Jose, Calif.)
Market Street (San Jose, Calif.)
Chinatowns
Streets
Chinese (LCSH)
Chinese Americans

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