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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 27, 2014
Caption: Oakland’s Chinatowns Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (lower left) This montage is titled “Oakland, a California Wonder, 1907” and depicts exotic scenes in the city. At the top left is 8th and Webster, the center of Chinatown. The woman in the center is a Japanese geisha and the image at the top right is actually a Japanese Tea House in Piedmont.; (top right) Northeast corner of 7th and Broadway, early 1940s. At that time, Broadway was the western boundary of the 8th and Webster Chinatown.; (center right) Webster and Eight Streets, the heart of Chinatown’s business district in 1958.; (bottom right) This postcard shows a Chinatown commercial street in the late 1800s.; (bottom center) Chinatown depicted as a fishing village at the foot of Castro Street, 1870s. Another fishing camp was located nearby at 4th and Clay streets. At the time, these sites were by the water’s edge.


Submitted: April 4, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p269938
File Size: 3.620 Megabytes

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