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Title
"The Coming Man": scene in The Principal Chinese Theatre, San Francisco, California, during the performance of a great historical play
Creator
Becker, Joseph (1841-1910), American, artist Davis & Speer (active ca. 1860), engraver Leslie, Frank (1821-1880), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
[18--]
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
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Description
Scene in theater with play in progress on stage in distance; diverse audience, including women in fancy dress, Chinese men and women (one holding infant), vendor holding tray, and others watch play.
Printed tiltle (LC). Printed (LR, within image): J.P. Davis, sc. Printed (LL): Supplement gratis with no. 762 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper; (LR): From a sketch by Joseph Becker.
Type
image
Format
Print on paper: engraving 45.2 x 59.7 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7779p49j
BANC PIC 1963.002:0470--C
Subject
California, Northern
Chinese
Clothing & dress
Events
Interiors
Manners & customs
San Francisco (Calif.)
Women

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