America's Chinatowns
America's Chinatowns Dozens of digs and collections are revealing the culture, diversity, and challenges of the first Chinese Americans By SAMIR S. PATEL Tuesday, April 08, 2014 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection) Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906 Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chine..