Immigrant Housing
Courtesy of Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
The white community in San Francisco would often categorize the Chinese as disease carriers, condemning Chinatown as a “laboratory of infection” –particularly during the bubonic plague epidemic in 1900.
New immigrants from Eastern Europe, as they struggled to find work and assimilate, often lived in crowded, sub-standard housing.
Courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts; Social Museum Collection, 3.2002.41.1