Image / Chinese family camped in a vacant lot.

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Title: Chinese family camped in a vacant lot.
Creator: Dobbin, Hamilton Henry, 1856-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: V1p372b
In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 372 center.
This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."
Text written to right of photo: "Chinaman and family victim of fire camped in a vacant lot 1906." View is of a Chinese family who have set up a tent after being burned out of their home in the fire. They seem well equipped. Another tent can be seen at the extreme left. A large mansion occupies the lot next door.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint ; 4 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001381052CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-4311
Subject: Refugee camps--California--San Francisco
Chinese Americans--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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