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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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San Francisco's Chinatown

San Francisco's Chinatown

Bowen, Brenda Young
Bowen, Robert W.

Paperback

Series: Postcard History

Asian American StudiesGeneral PhotographyRegional: West

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738559253
ISBN13: 9780738559254
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Jul 7 2008
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.65 Depth: 9.23
Language: English
Since the Gold Rush, San Francisco's Chinatown has been a destination for sojourners, immigrants, locals, and tourists. Despite laws restricting Chinese immigration, Chinatown has thrived as a residential and commercial center. Designed for tourists and bearing little resemblance to real Chinese cityscapes, the streets and buildings have nonetheless been extensively documented in picture postcards, as have the residents, particularly from the 1890s to 1930s, the Golden Age of Postcards. The cards, relatively few of which survive, were kept as visual souvenirs and mementos, or were mailed to family and friends.

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