Chinese New Year (Chinatown, San Francisco)

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Chinese New Year (Chinatown, San Francisco)

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Chinese New Year (Chinatown, San Francisco),

February 20, 1950

Minor White, 1908–1976; born Minneapolis, MN; died Boston, MA; active Portland, OR, and Rochester, NY
x1980-2093

Information

Title
Chinese New Year (Chinatown, San Francisco)
Dates

February 20, 1950

Maker
Minor White
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.6 × 22.8 cm (7 11/16 × 9 in.) sheet: 20.5 × 25.3 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum, bequest of Minor White
Object Number
x1980-2093
Place Depicted

North America, United States, California, San Francisco, Chinatown

Inscription
brown stamp on verso: MINOR WHITE / 72 N. UNION / ROCHESTER 7, N. Y. handwritten in graphite on verso, lower left: Chinese New Years
Culture
American
Type
black-and-white photographs, photographs, gelatin silver prints
Subject
smoke, people, fireworks (visual works), children (people by age group), figures (representations), streetscapes, Chinatowns

By bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum from Minor White (1908–1976).

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