Book illustration of a Chinatown alley by George Roux
1899
A plate drawn by George Roux for Jules Verne's novel The Will of an Eccentric, whose contest carries its players across the United States. The archive files the image among streets and alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown, a quarter that European illustrators of the period rendered largely from description.
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