Official map of Chinatown in San Francisco

Attribution:

Willard B. Farwell

Date:

1885

Description:

Produced for the Board of Supervisors by a specially appointed committee and used by the San Francisco Police Department, this “official map” of Chinatown marks the illegal gambling resorts, houses of Chinese and white prostitution, and opium dens. These features illustrate the close scrutiny and surveillance visited upon the Chinese community in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Bib. Reference:

Original in two sheets

Bancroft call number:

G4364.S5:2C45 1885 .S2

Digital image courtesy of:

Stanford Libraries