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Chinatown, San Francisco by Arnold Genthe

Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe · 1895

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DETAILS
Artist
Arnold Genthe
Date
1895
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collection
Photographs
Credit line
Gift of Clarence McK. Lewis, 1954
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Arnold Genthe

1869–1942 · United States

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

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