http://Hahn.zenfolio.com/p718324286 These fifteen photographs (on 12 plates) represent what I at present consider to be the first "coherent" visual documentation of Chinese life in San Francisco. <strong><em></em></strong><br/><strong><em></em></strong><br/><strong><em>Chinese Practices - Indelible Photographs </em></strong>was published as a small booklet by Adolph Wittemann and Joseph Hofmann (both publishers of souvenir albums) in 1892. <br/><br/>Depicted are very typical scenes, in an atypical environment: <br/>- A Dragon dance<br/>- A theatre actor<br/>- A vegetable vendor<br/>- A young woman with bound feet<br/>- A funeral procession and banquette<br/>- Offerings to the dead (ancestor worship)<br/>- Fortune telling<br/>- A book keeper's offices<br/>- A joss house<br/>- Opium smoking<br/>- Western (?) man with Chinese wife<br/><br/>All of these photographs capture Chinese life in this important California city as highly integrated, uncontested, while at the same time demonstrating a genuine cultural identity and heritage. They were taken some years before Arnold Genthe (arriving in SFO only in 1895) started to develop an interest in the Chinese urban presence, and - as stated above - may well constitute the first public and published photographic record of Chinese life in San Francisco. <br/><br/>Thomas H. Hahn<br/>Ithaca, NY en-us Copyright (C) Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:07:00 GMT Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:16:00 GMT Documentary City Scenes http://hahn.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p1026247239-10.jpg http://Hahn.zenfolio.com/p718324286 84 120 http://Hahn.zenfolio.com/p718324286/?photo=539418768 <p><a href="http://Hahn.zenfolio.com/p718324286/?photo=539418768"><img src="http://hahn.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p539418768-3.jpg"/></a></p> <p></p> th.hahn@gmail.com (Thomas H. 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