Chinatown street life recorded by Frances Benjamin Johnston

1903

Chinatown street life recorded by Frances Benjamin Johnston

A photographic print of Chinatown made by Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the first American women to build a national career as a professional photographer. She worked in San Francisco three years before the earthquake and fire levelled the district. The print is in the Library of Congress collections.

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