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Title
Portrait of "The Old Chinatown Blacksmith" in Chinatown, ca.1899
Creator
Johnson, G.G
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1899
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photographic portrait of "The Old Chinatown Blacksmith" in Chinatown, ca.1899. The blacksmith is at center and is dressed in traditional Chinese clothes. He is standing to the left of a brick building with several doors and windows in it, as well as a large key painted on it. There are awnings covering the walkway where the man is standing. There is another man walking in the background
he is dressed in Western clothes, including a jacket and hat.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19113 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9892
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19113
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9892.jpg
Subject
Chinese Americans
Commercial sites
Time Period
circa 1899
Place
California
Chinatown
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-230- [Microfiche number]
9892 [Accession number]
CHS-9892 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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