A Chinatown street scene issued as a Phostint postcard
1913
A view of Chinatown published by the Detroit Publishing Company under its Phostint colour process and sold as a postcard, with the copyright and trademark notices printed on the image and its reverse. Figures with parasols appear in the street. The card is part of the New York Public Library's Pacific Pursuits postcard collection and shows the quarter as it was rebuilt after 1906.
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