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Photographer: Jet Lowe (courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress)
Taken: April 1984
Caption: Looking North Along Main Street From Levee Road...
Additional Description: "Significance: It is a town of frame structures built by Chinese immigrants carpenters and Caucasian carpenters between 1912 and 1922. The Chinese came to America in the 1850s during the Gold Rush and in the 1860s and 1870s labored on the railroads. They were then diverted to farm labor, and contributed to the development of California agriculture. The Sacramento-San Joaquin delta consisted of large ranches which grew wheat, and when mechanized, allowed the farms to specialize in vegetable and fruit crops..." - HABS
Submitted: December 7, 2020, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p555482
File Size: 0.315 Megabytes

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