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Half-figure portrait of a Chinese man, probably an early immigrant in New York or San Francisco.
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Portrait of a Chinese man in traditional dress and silk cap, early 1870s
Ninth-plate tintype, lightly hand-tinted, in modern custom-made balsa- wood case.
Portrait of a Chinese man in traditional dress and silk cap, early 1870s
Ninth-plate tintype, lightly hand-tinted, in modern custom-made balsa- wood case.