Friday, November 26, 2021

Jake Lee’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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American Home Library of Great Musical Masterpieces  Volume 17, 6017, 1960, die-cut cover. The portrait of Felix Mendelssohn was probably dr...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Wai Cheu Hin, Photographer

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Very little is known about the photographer Wai Cheu Hin who had a studio, in 1890s, at 800 Stockton Street in San Francisco, California. Tw...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Lai Yong, Portrait Painter and Photographer

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Lai Yong was a portrait painter and photographer who was born in China in 1840. The 1870 U.S. Federal Census said he was 30 years old. Lai Y...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Loui Ghuey, Restauranteur, Photographer, Merchant and Sign Painter

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Loui Ghuey was born in December 1861, in China, according to the 1900 U.S. Federal Census. He immigrated to the United States in 1880. Why h...
Friday, October 29, 2021

A Story for Halloween

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Web of Mystery #24, May 1954 “ Realm of Lost Faces ” Art by Lou Cameron (Next post on Friday: Loui Ghuey, Restauranteur, Photographer, Merc...
Friday, September 3, 2021

seventeen

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Jeanyee Wong hand-lettered the seventeen logo. It’s not clear how many people were involved in the logos’s development. On the contents pa...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Poy Gum Lee (Li Jinpei) Mentioned in Books from 1946 and 1963

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China Edited by Harley Farnsworth MacNair University of California Press, 1946 Chapter XXIII Architecture by Henry Killam Murphy [architect]...