Photograph of San Francisco’s Dupont Street (Grant Avenue) at Night.
New York City: Brown Brothers, c. 1910s. Photograph measuring 5 x 7 ¼ inches, with manuscript caption and Brown Brothers stamps verso. Slight damage to edges else Near Fine. Item #List3319
A photo of a nighttime scene in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the oldest and largest in the US; the caption identifies the location as Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue). Grant Avenue is one of the two main thoroughfares of the city’s Chinatown, and a primary location where early Chinese immigrants, mainly from Guangdong, settled. The neighborhood was entirely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire and had to be rebuilt; pictured here is the iconic Sing Fat building, rebuilt by Ross and Burgren. The new buildings, with Chinese-styled pagodas, attracted tourists and presented a cleaned-up image of the neighborhood.
Price: $250.00