Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown

About this book

Rare photographs of Chinatown at the turn of the 20th century offer priceless glimpses of the rich street life of the district before it was leveled by the great earthquake and fire of 1906. Contains 130 of Genthe's finest Chinatown photos, many painstakingly reproduced from original glass negatives or lantern slides, and complemented with Tchen's text outlining the turbulent history of Chinese-Americans in California.