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Title
Chinese man before adobe house
Date Created and/or Issued
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
A Chinese man stands in front of a tree, a piece of paper with Chinese characters hung on the tree over his head. To the left, the front door of an adobe building, several bamboo conical hats hung on the outer wall. To the right, a wooden table and miscellaneous items. In the background is a wooded area.
Title transcribed from photo-mount. Date devised by cataloger. Print has been affixed to a card stock photo-mount. Caption typed under photo on photo-mount: "Fair Oaks Ranch. Chinese man before adobe house." Also typed along the bottom right: "1894?" and "Crank 1936." Same house as in photCL 6 (13) in album and photCL 6 (59).
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : cyanotype print ; 12 x 17 cm
Identifier
photCL 6
465270
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/13633
Subject
Agricultural laborers--California--Altadena
Chinese Americans--California--Altadena
Adobe houses--California--Altadena
Dwellings--California--Altadena
Cyanotypes (photographic prints) (aat)
Place
Altadena (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Gift of Mildred Crank, 1935-1938.

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