Chinese Apothecary, Chinatown, S. F. Cal

by Isaiah West Taber, photog

$1,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

San Francisco, ca. 1882 . Albumen print, 9.5” 7.5”, mounted on cardstock. CONDITION: Near fine, rich tonality, verso of mount with some wear. One of only two known photographs of Quong Sang Tong’s apothecary shop at 900 Dupont Street, San Francisco, this one picturing the interior.This evocative photograph shows Tong and a young child presumably Tong’s

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