Paying New Year's Calls

Arnold Genthe, 1895

MEDIUMGelatin silver print

LOCATIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

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THE ARTIST

Arnold Genthe 1869–1942 · United States

German scholar turned photographer who captured the only surviving images of San Francisco's Chinatown before 1906.