Chinatown: Chinese Girls
- Goeggel & Weidner 16, AutoChrom logo right, undivided back; postmarked SF 8/16/1902.
- Weidner 16, post-quake caption added, undivided back.
- Weidner 16, post-quake caption added, divided back; postmarked 12/17/1908.
Weidner Catalog shows five variants of this card:
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Goeggel & Weidner credit and AutoChrom logo front left,
caption "Chinese Girls", undivided back.
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[Above left] Goeggel & Weidner credit front left, AutoChrom logo front right,
caption "Chinese Girls", undivided back.
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Weidner credit and AutoChrom logo front left;
caption "Chinese Girls"; undivided back;
written date "Xmas '04" on front.
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[Above center] Weidner credit front left, no AutoChrom logo,
caption changed to "Chinese Aristocrats.
Reduced to poverty by earthquake and fire Apr. 18, 1906.";
undivided back.
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[Above right] Weidner credit on back,
"Aristocrats" caption,
divided back; postmarked SF 12/17/1908.
Britton & Rey 538 shows the same image with vibrant coloring.
Western 124 shows the same image, but with left/right reversed.
Behrendt 27, postmarked 12/24/1908, shows a different pose of the same girls in the same setting.
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