19th Century Chinese Restaurant
Grand Dining Room of the Chinese Restaurant, Washington Street, San Francisco (3009)
Publication: San Francisco: Taber Photo. [Late 1880s].
Notes: 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 1885 map of Chinatown published in San Francisco's municipal reports. In 1892, a restaurant called Chun Sun was located at 826, based on a report of a fire that ran in the July 14 San Francisco Examiner. Restaurants appear to have occupied that address during much of the 20th century, continuing to the present day.
9-7/16 by 7-7/16 inches. Captioned in the negative in a narrow strip along the bottom of the image.
Edition + Condition: A near fine image, a bit faded at the edges, but with good focus and contrast. Never mounted.
Item No: #364054
Price: $600