Portrait of "The Old Chinatown Blacksmith" in Chinatown, ca.1899

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Photographic portrait of "The Old Chinatown Blacksmith" in Chinatown, ca.1899. The blacksmith is at center and is dressed in traditional Chinese clothes. He is standing to the left of a brick building with several doors and windows in it, as well as a large key painted on it. There are awnings covering the walkway where the man is standing. There is another man walking in the background; he is dressed in Western clothes, including a jacket and hat.

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Title Portrait of "The Old Chinatown Blacksmith" in Chinatown, ca.1899

Subject Chinese Americans (lcsh), commercial sites (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Chinatown (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1899

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1899

Creator Johnson, G.G. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19113

Identifier 9892 (accession number), CHS-9892 (call number), CHS-9892 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19027 (legacy record id), chs-m19113 (legacy record id), 1-230- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19027

Unique identifier UC137325

Legacy Identifier CHS-9892.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.5 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
34.2 cm × 41.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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