Portrait of a Chinese opium smoker on his mat in the Barbary Coast of San Francisco, ca.1910-1920

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Photographic portrait of a Chinese opium smoker on his mat in the Barbary Coast of San Francisco, ca.1910-1920. A man lies in the fetal position, cradling the end of his long opium pipe between his knees as he draws a breath in. His opium kit is set on a tray next to him, over which the stump of his amputated left arm hangs. Clothes hang on the wall in the background.

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Title Portrait of a Chinese opium smoker on his mat in the Barbary Coast of San Francisco, ca.1910-1920

Subject Chinese (lcsh), Chinese Americans (lcsh), Drugs (lcsh), Minorities -- Chinese (file heading), Narcotics (lcsh), Opium (lcsh), Opium habit (lcsh), San Francisco County -- Barbary Coast (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910/1920

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (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 1910/1920

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7946

Identifier 7001 (accession number), CHS-7001 (call number), CHS-7001 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8177 (legacy record id), chs-m7946 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8075 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9160 (legacy record id), 1-230- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8177

Unique identifier UC125338

Legacy Identifier CHS-7001.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 cm at 300dpi

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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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