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Lot 501

Arnold Genthe
The Balloon Man, Chinatown, San Francisco;

24 – 25 October 2006, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

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Arnold Genthe

The Balloon Man, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
Warm-toned gelatin silver print, signed in ink on the image, framed.
9 1/2 x 7 3/8in

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Literature:
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown (New York: Dover Publications, 1984), p. 72, pl. 60

The balloon man is one of two German-Jewish brothers known as the 'Sa Ling Brothers' who ran a store on Dupont Road (now Grant Avenue) and were fluent in Chinese.

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