Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown

gentheAuthor:Arnold Genthe and John Kuo Wei Tchen

Publisher:Dover Publications

Publishing Year:1984

Call Number:F869.S36G337

Introduction:In 1985, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor to the son of an aristocratic family. Almost immediately, Genthe was attracted by Chinatown, or “Tangrenbu”–a teeming ten-block area of crowded buildings,narrow streets and exotic sights and sounds int he shadow of Nob Hill.

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