[Chan Ching reading a Chinese newspaper] | San Francisco Public Library

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Local identifier: AAB-6957
Title: [Chan Ching reading a Chinese newspaper]
Date: 1938 Oct. 24
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Newspapers.
Written on back: "SAN FRANCISCO--A PALL OF GLOOM SETTLE OVER SAN FRANCISCO'S FAMED CHINATOWN--COMPOSED LARGELY OF CANTONESE CHINESE--AS WAR NEWS FROM THE ORIENT TOLD OF THE OCCUPATION AND BURNINGS OF CANTON, AND THE MERCILESS DRIVE OF THE JAPANESE LEGIONS ON HANKOW. CHINESE OLDSTERS LIKE CHAN CHING, 70, SCANNED CHINESE PAPERS FOR CASUALTY LISTS AND THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE WAR SACKED HOMELAND, BUT 'WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR PEOPLE, OUR PROPERTY, THERE WILL BE NO LISTS OF DEAD OR WOUNDED FOR MANY DAYS.'".
"Acme Newspictures Inc. photograph."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Chinese American newspapers--California--San Francisco
Bibliographic Number: .b10118913
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:126884