Chinese Immigrants at the San Francisco Customs House
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Woodcut engraved title page of the February 3, 1877 issue of Harper’s Weekly.
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Description
A view of a custom’s house in San Francisco showing crowds of Chinese immigrants and several inspectors. Chinese people would arrive in large numbers in California after they were first tested as workers on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1865. Sentiment soon changed, and the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers.
The gender ratio seen in the image is accurate – men outnumbered women as high as 20 to 1 in Chinatown and the 1875 Page Act banned immigration of Chinese women entirely. Published in New York as part of an 1877 issue of Harper’s Weekly Magazine.
Map Details
Publication Date: 1877
Author: Harper's Weekly
Sheet Width (in): 11.25
Sheet Height (in): 15.8
Condition: A-
Condition Description: The print is in very good condition, with the binding edge slightly ragged. Matte available for slightly extra shipping costs.
$60.00
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