San Francisco's Chinatown by Robert Bowen

San Francisco's Chinatown by Robert Bowen

Since the Gold Rush, San Francisco's Chinatown has been a destination for sojourners, immigrants, locals, and tourists. Despite laws restricting Chinese immigration, Chinatown has thrived as a residential and commercial center. Designed for tourists and bearing little resemblance to real Chinese cityscapes, the streets and buildings have nonetheless been extensively documented in picture postcards, as have the residents, particularly from the 1890s to 1930s, the Golden Age of Postcards. The cards, relatively few of which survive, were kept as visual souvenirs and mementos, or were mailed to family and friends.

Bowen, Robert W.: - As a docent at the Presidio and the third generation of his family to be stationed there, author Robert W. Bowen has a unique grasp of the subtleties that have shaped its path. As past president of the San Francisco Bay Area Post Card Club and a member of the Fort Point and Presidio Historical Association, as well as the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, he brings to these pages a captivating assortment of historical images, and the stories that go with them, to capture the essence of what life was really like at the Presidio.

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ISBN 13	9780738559254
ISBN 10	0738559253
Title	San Francisco's Chinatown
Author	Robert Bowen
Series	Postcard History Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Arcadia Publishing
Year published	2008-07-02
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.