The southern edge of Chinatown
1896
Arnold Genthe photographed the boundary where Chinatown met the rest of San Francisco, part of the body of work he made in the quarter between 1896 and the 1906 earthquake. The negative is held by the Library of Congress in the Genthe Collection.
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