A terrific 19th century Chinatown albumen photograph that offers an interesting contrast to Taber's many well-known photographs of Cheong Wo & Co., a butcher shop that was located nearby. This view was just a half-block away, at the corner of Washington Street and the Washington Place alley. The shops in.....
Price: $1,250
An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of the exterior of the Hang Fer Lo restaurant and the Colombo cigar factory on Dupont Street, between Sacramento and Clay Streets in San Francisco's Chinatown. Hang Fer Lo was the leading Chinese restaurant in the city before the earthquake. It operated.....
Price: $750
An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of a large room in a Chinese restaurant, empty of people. The room is decorated with carvings and hanging scroll paintings. This view may have been taken inside the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street, the only restaurant on Washington Street in the.....
Price: $600
An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of five idols in a Chinatown temple. Most likely, this is the temple at 9 Brooklyn Place, off of Sacrament Street, where the Lung Gong Association (Longgang gongsuo; now the Lung Kong Tin Yee Association) had its headquarters in the late 1880s.....
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A brown toned albumen silver print of one of one of Taber's most enigmatic views of San Francisco's always bustling Chinatown—an improbably empty alley with a ghostly image of a child at the intersection of two streets. Taber obviously retouched the negative to remove figures from the upper part of.....
Price: $300
A very nice ninethenth century albumen street scene photograph of San Francisco's Chinatown. This photograph shows a sunlit Clay Street looking down hill, possibly from just below Stockton Street. A Chinese man in a work apron is walking in the foreground, facing the camera. Other men walk away from Taber's.....
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Albumen photograph, 4-7/8 by 8 inches, of a large Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake, probably the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street. The restaurant may have been called Chun Sun; a restaurant with that name operated at 826 Washington Street in 1892, according to a San Francisco Examiner.....
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An albumen photograph, 4-13/16 by 7-15/16 inches, of the exterior of a Chinese church in San Francisco. The building is two stories, with a central entrance up a short flight of stone stairs. The second floor has a narrow balcony decorated with hanging plants and paper lanterns. This is one.....
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Albumen photograph, 4-7/8 by 8 inches, of the exterior of Hang Fer Lo, the leading Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above Columbo & Co. Cigars, on Dupont Street, between Sacrament and Clay Streets in Chinatown. The entrance is located under a small.....
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Albumen photograph, 4-13/16 by 7-15/16 inches, of the interior of a Chinese restaurant, showing the entry hall opening out into the dining room, which has tables and chairs but no people. This view is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. This image.....
Price: $150
A medium format photograph, possibly a gelatin silver print, of an altar with a bearded god statue. The statue is decorated with peacock feathers placed on a carved wooden altar. Pots and urns of various sizes sit on the altar in front of the idol. 7-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches. The.....
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An albumen silver print of Dupont Street in San Francisco with the Hang Fer Lo restaurant in the center. This was the leading Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above Columbo & Co. Cigars, at 713 Dupont St., on the border of Little.....
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A boudoir cabinet card of men posing in the left side of a Chinese grocery store displaying vegetables for sale in barrels and bins. From other images of the same store we know that to the right, not very visible in this image, was the butcher. This is an uncommon.....
Price: $750
