Arnold Genthe - Three women on Kearney Street, Chinatown, San Francisc...
Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 91. Purch... More
Arnold Genthe - A corner on the hillside, Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More
Man and two boys walking along a street, Chinatown, San Francisco
Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquak... More
In Chinatown, New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tie You, wife of Mock Duck, leader of Hip Sing Tong organization in Ch...
Photograph shows portrait of the wife of Sai Wing Mock, leader of Hip Sing Tong organization, which fought On Leong Tong for control of Chinatown. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper P... More
The Weighing machine - A black and white photo of men working in a fac...
Eight Chinese men working at machine with cans of salmon in background, probably in Washington or Oregon. J186300 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1385. Copyright by J.A. McCormick.
Chinese B.B. team, Hawaii - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows a Chinese American baseball team from Hawaii which came to the United States to play against university teams. This team played Columbia University's team on May 31, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commo... More
Broken blossoms - movie film screenshot
Motion picture lobby card for "Broken blossoms" shows sailors standing over bodies of a Chinese man and a sailor, lying on the dirt street in Chinatown; Chinese residents stand back and watch.
First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...
Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New York, New York. Mr. Fing, a Chinese-American merchant, and his wif...
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Various take-off styles were exhibited as this 50-yard dash kicked off...
Photograph shows Chinese American boys starting to run a race. Title from news agency caption on item. Notation on verso: "Track meet for Chinese boys at City Park - sponsored by Chinatown Lions. Start of 50 ya... More
American flag mural in Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More
Chinese woman and boy - Public domain portrait photograph
Title devised by cataloger. Attribution to Jackson and date based on negative D4-9045. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09051. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
But the hands that were played by that heathen Chinee [sic] ... / Hull...
Cartoon showing Chinese-American man and two other men playing cards. Copyright by Western News Co. No. 5.
The queen of Chinatown by Joseph Jarrow.
Caption: Simply carrying out an old Irish custom! Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 8763. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
The only Chinese bill that the president cannot veto
Print shows a Chinese laundry ticket that states "Clothes are given to the person showing the check - all responsibility then ceases. None given without a check; if lost, goods cannot be claimed. Not responsibl... More
Arnold Genthe - Toy merchants, Chinatown, San Francisco
Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 62. Purch... More
Arnold Genthe - Dupont Street entrance to Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More
Men standing or walking down a sidewalk, Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More
Poster - Hoyt's new A trip to Chinatown - Public domain lithograph
38623 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Complimenting the heathens in the deaf and dumb language on the beauties of their country. They understand him, (nit). Caption: Harry Gilfoil. Create... More
Poster - Hoyt's new A trip to Chinatown - Public domain lithograph
38624 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Welland Strong's hard luck ride through Chinatown. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." Direction of Fred E. Wright.... More
Chinatown from street, George Grantham Bain Collection
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More
Portrait photo of Chinese, William Henry Jackson photograph
Attribution based on negative D4-32662. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09050. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
[Interior view of tearoom in Chinatown, New York City, N.Y.]
H28277 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by George Daniels, New York City.
Chinese New Year, George Grantham Bain Collection
Chinese child with an adult on step outside of building, Chinatown, New York City, 1909. Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Butte, Montana. Cityscape photograph
Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Washington's Friendship Arch, entering the city's Chinatown neighorhoo...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More
Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City
Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Joss House, 45160 Albion Street, Mendocino, Mendocino County, CA
Significance: The Mendocino Joss House is the only remaining Chinese joss house in use in California north of San Francisco and south of the Oregon border. This simple structure possesses great structural inte... More
Town of Locke, Joe Shoong Chinese School, 13920 Main Street, Locke, Sa...
Significance: This one-story, wooden frame structure was built in 1915 as the National Park Hall. It later served as a Chinese school, and today is often used for public meetings. Survey number: HABS CA-2071-... More
First Chinese Church of Christ, 1054 South King Street, Honolulu, Hono...
Survey number: HABS HI-530 Building/structure dates: 1929 Initial Construction
Arnold Genthe - The fish dealer's daughter, Chinatown, San Francisco
Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 20. Alter... More
Arnold Genthe - A corner on the hillside, Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More
Arnold Genthe - Hairy kid, Chinatown, San Francisco
Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 115. Purc... More
Arnold Genthe - Friends, Chinatown, San Francisco
Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 61. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.
The visit of the Ambassador of China / drawn by T. Dart Walker.
Three illustrations showing reception at ex-Secretary Whitney's house during which Li Hung-chang presents President Cleveland with a letter from the emperor of China; continuing celebration in Chinatown; and an... More
Arnold Genthe - No likee, Chinatown, San Francisco
Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 99. Alternate title from a similar image in: Pictures of old Chi... More
Arnold Genthe - A holiday, Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More
Arnold Genthe - Street scene, Chinatown, San Francisco
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. vd image reversed 2/96
[Chinese American child in embroidered jacket]
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chinese woman and children - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
"9050" and "WHJ 402" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Edge of Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal
Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019194. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Sam Lee [i.e., Tom Lee], Mayor of Chinatown, 86 yrs. old, at American ...
Half-length portrait of Mayor, seated, facing front. J186202 U.S. Copyright Office.
Tom Lee Funeral, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows the funeral procession of Tom Lee, leader of On Leong Tong and "mayor" of New York's Chinatown. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the n... More
[Rag Pickers Alley, San Francisco, California]
Chinese man smoking long pipe. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Office of War In...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A tiny celestial goes on the scale. One of the most interesting of the...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Atlantic Div. Data: RC Courier, Apr. 15/22. Classification: Home Hygiene. Gift; A... More
Nothing like a New Year's party / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred P...
Photograph shows a teacher in a classroom surrounded by five students wearing paper party hats with Chinese script written on them. NYWT&S staff photograph. Date on verso: Jan 24 1966. Title from news agency ca... More
Jade Island Chinese Restaurant, Meredith, New Hampshire
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More
Mural by unknown artist located in Chinatown, San Francisco, Californi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the t... More
Neon sign outside the old Sun Mercantile Building in the warehouse dis...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More
Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City
Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More
Lithuanian birbyne ensemble, Chicago, Illinois; Mr. Antanas Poskocimas...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-3, Balys Pakstas' birbyne ensemble, left to right, Mr. Vincus Vaitk... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More