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Title: "The Modern 'Old Man of the Sea'"
Publication Information: TheBancroftLibrary, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Chinese in California Virtual Collection: Selections from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: With excerpt from "Sinbad the Sailor" -- anecdote about the man who tricked Sinbad into carrying him across the brook by pretending he was weak. Chinese depicted as analogous to this duplicitous character: "California, having once relieved the Chinaman, is now compelled to carry him around indefinitely."
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb7g50057z
No. 77:408-409
Subject: California--Emigration and immigration--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons--California

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