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Portrait of an actor in classical costume holding a whip, one leg raised on Chinese garden with pavilions background /

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Title: Portrait of an actor in classical costume holding a whip, one leg raised on Chinese garden with pavilions background /
Alternative Title: Digital Archive of Chinese Theater in California
Creator: May's Photo (Firm : San Francisco, Calif.)
Contributor: May's Photo (Firm : San Francisco, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1920 and 1929] (issued)
1920 (issued)
1929 (issued)
Publication Information: San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
Contributing Institution: Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library
Collection: Collection of Chinese Theater Images in California
Rights Information: For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the librarian.
Description: May's Photo.
TIFF archival image file CD
A tasselled whip represents a horse.
Cataloging and digitization was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the librarian
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 20 cm.
Form/Genre: graphic
Photographic prints.
Portrait photographs.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6489q1k2
ark:/13030/kt6489q1k2
Language: English
Subject: Operas, Chinese
Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Actors--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Costume--China--Photographs
Gardens--China--Photographs
Place: Chinese Americans
California
San Francisco
Photographs
Actors
Costume
China
Gardens
San Francisco (Calif.)
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).

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