Finding Aid to the Charles Albert Rogers paintings of Chinatown, San Francisco. 1901-1902
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Finding Aid to the Charles Albert Rogers paintings of Chinatown, San Francisco. 1901-1902
Collection number: BANC PIC 2004.007--FR
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Charles Albert Rogers paintings of Chinatown, San Francisco.
Date (inclusive): 1901-1902
Collection Number: BANC PIC 2004.007--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Extent:
13 digital objects (13 images)
13 paintings : oil on board ; 18 x 12 in.
Repository:
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Abstract: Paintings of street scenes and people in San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in
English
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Charles Albert Rogers Paintings of Chinatown, San Francisco., BANC PIC 2004.007--FR, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, Phone: (510) 642-6481, Fax: (510) 642-7589, Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Alternate Forms Available
Digital reproductions are available.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Chinese -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Biography/Organization History
Biographical Information Charles Albert Rogers (1848-1918) was born in New Haven, Connecticut on February 26, 1848. He studied
art in New York City for 15 years and had further training in Rome, Munich, and Paris. After 1877 he was in San Francisco
where he painted portraits, landscapes, coastals, and Chinatown genre in both oil and watercolor. He exhibited at the Mark
Hopkins Institute in 1898 and was active in San Francisco until the 1906 disaster. His studio at 108 Stockton Street went
up in flames, taking with it 150 of his paintings, mostly scenes of the City. He then moved to Los Angeles where he exhibited
at the Blanchard Bldg and Daniell Gallery, and maintained a studio in the Chamber of Commerce Bldg until about 1913. Rogers
painted in Yosemite during the summer of 1911. He died in Alameda, California on April 26, 1918. Member: Painters & Sculptors
of Los Angeles; California Art Club; San Francisco Art Ass'n. Exhibited: Mechanics' Institute Fair (San Francisco), 1895-99
(scenes of Fruitvale); Mark Hopkins Institute, 1897; Calif. State Fair, 1902; Alaska Yukon Exposition (Seattle), 1909 (bronze
medal); Blanchard Gallery (Los Angeles), 1911; San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1916. (Source of biographical notes: Kelley Gallery,
Pasadena. Derived from biographical entry by Edan Hughes.)
Scope and Content of Collection
Paintings of street scenes and people in San Francisco's Chinatown before the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Note
Oil paintings dated and signed: C.A. Rogers. Each bears artist's original annotation as to location and date on back. Time
of day is also noted on some works.
Descriptions of some popular names for Chinatown alleys in Chapter 5 of "The Barbary Coast" by Herbert Asbury, from the online
version at: http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/tbcsfca3.html
and
Official map of "Chinatown" in San Francisco / prepared under the supervision of the special committee of the Board of Supervisors,
July 1885. G4364.S5:2C45 1885.S2 [Online via the Chinese in California Project, Library of Congress site]
In Gum Gook [Com Coak?] Alley.
May 1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:01--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Possibly Com Coak Alley, also known as Sullivan's Alley, between Jackson and Pacific Streets, San Francisco.
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #57, #17, 10.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Opium Den, Rag Picker's Alley.
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:02--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen", San Francisco.
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #58, 39, #2.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Doorway, Bartlett Alley. [22 Bartlett Alley, or possibly Ross Alley.]
1902 BANC PIC 2004.007:03--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #11, #35, #6. Bartless Alley title information transcribed from pencil notation
on back of board.
Additional Note
Bartlett Alley was also known as Lozier Street, running between Jackson and Pacific Streets. Later called Beckett Street.
Additional Note
Researcher-supplied information, based on business signs: Tuck Lee at left of doorway, and Kong Fong restaurant at right.
The 1905 business directory gives Ross Alley addresses for these establishments.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Home of the Vegetable Pedler [i.e. Peddler]. Rag Picker's Alley. Chinatown.
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:04--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen".
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #18, 36, 33. Also: [Possibly instructions to framer? Or to printer for reproduction?]
"½ Strt [?] B.O. Pied [?]fruitwood. No plate. Transfer title to back. May Victor 878-4433."
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Rag Picker's Alley.
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:05--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen".
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #5, 12, 19, #42.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Entrance to Chinese Joss House Oneida alley, SF [Oneida Place?]
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:06--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Oneida Place, off of Jackson Street, although there was no Joss House entrance there as of 1885.
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #48, 38a, #28, 1.P.M.
Additional Note
Researcher-supplied information: the lintel reads "Tan Kung Temple." It could be the entrance to the Tam Clan Association
at No. 3 Oneida Place, which did have a joss house in the 1890s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
In Rag Pickers Alley.
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:07--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as the "Devil's Kitchen".
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #54, 7, #6.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Chinese Doorway on Pacific Street.
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:08--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #2, #23.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Sam Kee's Repair Shop.
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:09--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #21, #59, #545. Also: "12 o'clock" Kelley Gallery label.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Entrance to a Chinese Dwelling in Baker's Alley, Chinatown, S.F.
1902 BANC PIC 2004.007:10--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: 4, #53, 2.P.M. Also: other titles "In Baker's Alley" and "Entrance to Chinese
Dwelling".
Additional Note
Number "16" on lintel of door in painting. Not located on 1885 Chinatown map. Philip Choy's "San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide..."
(2012) places this alley, also called Bread Alley, near the southwest corner of Grant and Pacific.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Church Alley.
1902 BANC PIC 2004.007:11--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Probably Church Court, off Washington Street.
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #56, #12, 1218, 41.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Chinese Kitchen / St. Louis Alley.
1902 BANC PIC 2004.007:12--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Scope and Content Note
Off Jackson Street.
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #8, #46, #10.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
Chinese carpenter at work, St. Louis alley [St. Louis Place], Chinatown, S.F.
1901 BANC PIC 2004.007:13--FR
Creator:
Rogers, Charles Albert
Physical Description:
Extent: 1 painting
Additional Note
Verso: Numerous numberings, many scratched out: #26, 1220, 37, #52. Title transcribed from pencil notation on back of board.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Oil paintings
