Sep 25, 2001 - Sale 1906

Sale 1906 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 80
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
(CHINATOWN)
Louis J. Beck. New York's Chinatown. New York, (1898). Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth, stained, corners bumped; recased; finger soiling, scattered early owner's ink notations.

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Chinatown began in the second half of the 19th Century, though at first the population consisted almost entirely of men, as immigration laws disallowed wives and families. The population remained below 4000 until World War II. This is likely the first published sociological study of the area.