SF Public Library -- Historical Photographs

Photo Id#	AAB-6957
Title	[Chan Ching reading a Chinese newspaper] [graphic].
Date	1938 Oct. 24.
Description	1 photographic print: b&w.
Location	Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Newspapers.
Reproduction Rights	Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Notes	Written on back: "SAN FRANCISCO--A PALL OF GLOOM SETTLE OVER SAN FRANCISCO'S FAMED CHINATOWN--COMPOSED LARGELY OF CANTONESE CHINESE--AS WAR NEWS FROM THE ORIENT TOLD OF THE OCCUPATION AND BURNINGS OF CANTON, AND THE MERCILESS DRIVE OF THE JAPANESE LEGIONS ON HANKOW. CHINESE OLDSTERS LIKE CHAN CHING, 70, SCANNED CHINESE PAPERS FOR CASUALTY LISTS AND THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE WAR SACKED HOMELAND, BUT 'WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR PEOPLE, OUR PROPERTY, THERE WILL BE NO LISTS OF DEAD OR WOUNDED FOR MANY DAYS.'".
	"Acme Newspictures Inc. photograph."
Subject	San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
	Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
	Chinese American newspapers -- California -- San Francisco.
Series	San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source	Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection Name	Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)