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Mr. and Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens
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Title:
Mr. and Mrs. Wong Sun Yue ClemensAbstract:
Portraits of a mixed race couple who ran a curio business in San Francisco's Chinatown. She is of European descent and he,
Chinese. He wears traditional Chinese costume in all images, and she is in Western dress in one, Chinese in the others. They
are pictured in front of an open doorway and in their shop.
Date:
ca. 1910-ca. 1915 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caChinese -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs
Intermarriage -- California -- Photographs
Chinois -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Photographies
Mariage mixte -- Californie -- Photographies
Chinese
Intermarriage
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown
Wong, Sun Yue Clemens -- Portraits
Note:
Title from manuscript caption on images and/or stamps on versos.
Stamped on verso of 4 prints: Mr. & Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens / Dug from the ruins / 535 Grant Ave. / San Francisco Calif.
4 images captioned: Mrs. Howard Gould's sister.
3 photographic prints (from 2008 additions) accompanied by envelope with 1915 stamp of Panama-Pacific International Exhibition.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
5 photographic prints (postcards) : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm
Language:
English