Name/Title
Chinese Vegetable Peddler-San Francisco Dupont Street, Chinese QuartersEntry/Object ID
CHSA-00882Scope and Content
Front: In this tradecard one can find a black and white illustration of a Chinatown street scene in the early 1900's.The main focus of this illustration looks at Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) and what it looked like during the Victorian age. Here we can see storefronts and brick-layed streets where a horse is pulling a buggy and its passengers. Women walk around with their umbrella and often are escorted by men wearing suits. Near the upper left hand corner is an inserted picture of a "Chinese Vegetable Pedler." In this picture of two vegetable peddlers, one of the men is balancing two baskets on a stick, while the other looks over the merchandise. On the outside white border of the tradecard is the following notation: No. 25. and San Francisco. Dupont Street, Chinese Quarters
Back: Object ID #, Old Accession #: A)- and the following:
Description of Scene:
Dupont Street, San Francisco, with its 1,000 Chinese is always of highest interests to the tourist. Here live many silken robed commercial princes of the Mongolian sojourners, also highbinders, rat eaters, gamblers, the rich and the poor, the sick and the strong, ever smiling when sad, and hustling for enough dollars to take back some day to China to buy a wife with little feet.
Many chubby Chinese children greet you her and there, jabbering away like young ducks. A detective will show you through all the sights "for a five", including opium smoking cellars down a flight of stairs, up into the gaily festooned eboy finished high class restaurants where you pay 25c for a cup of tea worth $5.00 per lb.
You'll visit a couple of "Joss Houses" or Chinese temples where each member's account is printed on the wll till paid, and where incense to "Joss" will cost you a good sized tip. Ten thousands kinds of fancy articles will tempt your purse on Dupont Street, for the celestial is a smart trader who knows what takes best in the town of the "Melican man", and a few years here enables him to retire for a life of ease in China, where he will take his highest pleasure sitting upon the graves of his ancestors in serene contemplation, and wondering why the American is so foolish as to take no delight in such occupation.
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