Chinese Butcher and Grocery Shop, Chinatown, S. F.

by Isaiah West Taber, photog

$1,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

San Francisco, ca. 1887 . Albumen print, mounted on paperboard. 7.5” x 9.5” on larger mount. CONDITION: Very good, rich tonality, some wear to mount, short closed tear just to left of photographer’s credit. One of four known Taber photographs of Cheong a.k.a Chong Wo & Co.’s grocery and butcher shop, considered by some “the most famous Chinatown butcher shop of the pre-1906

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