Image / [Street corner in Chinatown, San Francisco, California]

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Title: [Street corner in Chinatown, San Francisco, California]
Creator: Blum, Robert F. (1857-1903), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1890]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Busy street corner lined with three story buildings with elaborately carved cornices and balconies; facades decorated with paper lanterns and flowers. Open markets on street level; figures wearing traditional dress crowd streets.
Supplied title. Signature (LR): R. Blum.
Type: image
Format: Painting on paper mounted on board: watercolor and gouache 47.3 x 24.5 cm., visible image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1p30078w
BANC PIC 1963.002:0280--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Chinese
Manners & customs
San Francisco (Calif.)

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