A Chinatown street photographed by Isaiah West Taber

1890

A Chinatown street photographed by Isaiah West Taber

The print carries a handwritten note on its reverse reading simply "China town in San Francisco, 1890". Taber ran one of the city's best-known commercial studios; this copy is in the Rijksmuseum collection.

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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