Book VIII Print 51: Businesses in Havana's Chinese quarter

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Description

Title: Book VIII Print 51: Businesses in Havana's Chinese quarter
Creator: From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor: From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created: [1960?]
Description: Images taken of several businesses in Havana's Barrio Chino, or Chinese quarter, probably in early 1960. Top frames show street peddlers selling books and oranges on la Calle Zanja, or Zanja street. The second and third sets of frames show a typographers' workshop and a Chinese herb and medicine shop. The fourth set of frames shows the offices of unidentified business in which three Cubans, one Chinese, one creole white and one mulatto, as well as a young creole white office boy, attend to a visiting foreigner, possibly Jay Mallin, a reporter who often accompanied the photographer.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English
Spanish

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 6, folder 610

Access: Public
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Citation: Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.