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Studio portrait of Chin Gee Hee, Seattle, 1905
Title
Studio
portrait
of
Chin
Gee
Hee
,
Seattle
,
1905
Photographer
Unknown
Date
1905
Caption
Chin
Gee
Hee
was a
labor
contractor
in
Seattle
and
owned
the
Quong
Tuck
Company
. He was
well
connected
with
Seattle's
business
leaders
and
served
as a
spokesman
for the
Chinese
American
community
.
Notes
Note
from
Wing
Luke
records
: In this
photo
he
stands
on a
floral
carpet
in his
Chinese
Official's
black
satin
robe
with
emroidered
rank
badge
,
white
collar
,
official's
beads
and
round
black
hat
.
Under
robe
shows
diagonally
embroidered
stripes
below
black
robe
.
Subjects
Chinese
Americans
--
Washington
(
State
)--
Seattle
Business
people
--
Washington
(
State
)--
Seattle
Personal Names
Chin
,
Gee
Hee
,
1844
-
1930
Places
United
States
--
Washington
(
State
)--
Seattle
Digital Collection
Wing
Luke
Asian
Museum
Photograph
Collection
Image Number
1991
.
200
.
111
Ordering Information
To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions contact: bfisher@wingluke.org. Please cite the Image Number.
Credit Line
Wing Luke Asian Museum Photograph Collection
Repository
Wing Luke Asian Museum
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:
b
&
w
;
9
x
7
in.
Type
Image
Digital Reproduction Information
Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3.
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