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Chinatown circa 1885

Illustration depicting a scene titled 'Chinese Grand Restaurant' Three figures in traditional dress, two musicians playing and a pipe-smoking man observing. One source titles a very similar image "24 x 36 canvas, Early picture of scene at the Chinese Theatre. Chinatown. San Francisco. Circa 1889 - From a painting by Henry Alexander." [B 1856 Chinese Grand Restaurant 'Henry Alexander 1885']
Isaiah West Taber (Marilyn Blaisdell Collection / Courtesy of Molly Blaisdell)

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