Chinatown: Street Scene
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All four cards of these cards are based on the same post-earthquake photo, presumably by Weidner. The "Grant Avenue" caption of the Newman and Pacific Novelty cards is incorrect: the image looks west on Washington Street from Washington Place ("Fish Alley", now Wentworth Place, just above Portsmouth Square), and several of the buildings still stand in 2019.
- Weidner 596 is probably closest to the original photo and is by far the best of the four in print quality. It shows one man looking into a shop window at left.
- Pacific Novelty 391 shows two men rather than one at left, and in the street at right it shows a man who does not appear on the other cards.
- Newman V324, postmarked SF 7/14/1913 with P.P.I.E. cancellation, shows two different men at left. Another example is postmarked 8/11/1910, so the original photo must date from ca. 1907-1910.
- Pacific Novelty 2807. I described Newman V324 as "garish" before I found the later white border era Pacific Novelty 2807; it's the same image (two men at left) and caption as Newman 324, but its coloring raises "garish" to another level.
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