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Title
Actor in a dan role dressed in embroidered jacket and skirt holds a folding fan /
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
Background painted by Cantonese Lo Yin-tzu Studio
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/kt896nc8r8
ark:/13030/kt896nc8r8
Language
English
Subject
Lo Yin-tzu Studio (Guangzhou, China)
Operas, Chinese
Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Actors--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Female impersonators--Photographs
Embroidery--China--Photographs
Jackets--Photographs
Skirts--Photographs
Fans--Photographs
Place
Chinese Americans
California
San Francisco
Photographs
Actors
Embroidery
China
San Francisco (Calif.)
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).

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