| San Francisco's Chinatown Contributor(s): Bowen, Robert W. (Author), Bowen, Brenda Young (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738559253 ISBN-13: 9780738559254 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2008 Annotation: Since the Gold Rush, San Franciscoas Chinatown has been a destination for sojourners, immigrants, locals, and tourists. Despite laws restricting Chinese immigration, Chinatown has thrived as a residential and commercial center. Designed for tourists and bearing little resemblance to real Chinese cityscapes, the streets and buildings have nonetheless been extensively documented in picture postcards, as have the residents, particularly from the 1890s to 1930s, the aGolden Age of Postcards.a The cards, relatively few of which survive, were kept as visual souvenirs and mementos, or were mailed to family and friends. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 979.461 |
| LCCN: 2008921003 |
| Series: Postcard History |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.65" W x 9.23" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - San Francisco, California - Cultural Region - Northern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Ethnic Orientation - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since the Gold Rush, San Francisco's Chinatown has been a destination for sojourners, immigrants, locals, and tourists. Despite laws restricting Chinese immigration, Chinatown has thrived as a residential and commercial center. Designed for tourists and bearing little resemblance to real Chinese cityscapes, the streets and buildings have nonetheless been extensively documented in picture postcards, as have the residents, particularly from the 1890s to 1930s, the "Golden Age of Postcards." The cards, relatively few of which survive, were kept as visual souvenirs and mementos, or were mailed to family and friends. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bowen, Robert W.: - Robert W. Bowen, a past president of the San Francisco Bay Area Post Card Club and author of Arcadia's San Francisco's Presidio and San Francisco Art Deco, and Chinatown native Brenda Young Bowen chose the images for this book from their collection of over 800 vintage postcards of Chinese in America. This collection provides a rare glimpse into early San Francisco's Chinatown. |
