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Photo Id# AAB-7071
Title [Archway to the Ping Yuen Housing Development in Chinatown] [graphic].
Date [1956 Feb. 2]
Description 1 photographic print : b&w. ; 16 x 20 cm. (6 x 7 3/4 in.)
Location Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Housing-Ping Yuen.
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Notes Newscopy: "There Is an Archway in Chinatown--The News' story about the campaign for a pailou (archway) for Chinatown erred in saying there is none there now. this one's at the entrance of the Housing Authority's Ping Yuen apartments. It's inscribed with a proverb by philosopher Lao Tse: 'Peace and Prosperity Prevail Among Virtuous Neighbors."
Copy Negative Negative #11397
Subject San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Dwellings -- California -- San Francisco.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection