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Photo Id# AAK-1496
Title [Chinese Equal Rights League membership card for Chin Fook signed by Sam Ping Lee at New York on December 4, 1897] [graphic]
Date [1897]
Description 1 photographic print : b&w. ; 18 x 25 cm. (7 x 10 in.)
Location Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Chinese Equal Rights League.
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Notes Newscopy: "MEMBERSHIP CARD of Chinese Equal Rights League of the late 19th century-[...]hu Chan, [...]ght against [...]. Exclusion, [...] prohibited [...] laborers from en-[...] California. [...] who was presi[dent of] both the powerful [...] Yup district organization and the Six Companies, also was the leading figure in the campaign against the Geary Act which required all Chinise in the state to [...]. Thus he organized a [...] 'The president of the'. Feb. 18, 1964."
Copy Negative Negative #853
Subject Chinese Americans -- Civil rights -- United States.
Membership cards.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.