street vendors carrying twin baskets suspended from shoulder San Francisco Chinatown circa 1900

Louis John Stellman (1/6/1877 Born in Baltimore, Maryland) ... more

by Monterey County Historical Society

Title

street vendors carrying twin baskets suspended from shoulder San Francisco Chinatown circa 1900

Artist

Monterey County Historical Society

Medium

Photograph - Color Photo

Description

Louis John Stellman (1/6/1877 Born in Baltimore, Maryland)
And came to California in July, 1896. After briefly trying pharmacy, then as a telegrapher on Alcatraz Island, He settled down at the turn of the century as a Los Angeles newspaperman.
In 1902 he moved to San Francisco and worked as a reporter, then an editor, for the "News".
He married Edith Alice Kinney in San Francisco on June 1, of 1904.
Stellman was a protege of Arnold Genthe and produced a significant portfolio of photographs in San Francisco's Chinatown between 1906 and the early 1920's.
By 1926 he and his wife were living in Menlo Park,
He moved in 1947 with his wife Edith Kinney Stellman (1877-1957) to Carmel on the Monterey Peninsula where he remained until his death in Carmel at the age of 84 years old on June 20, 1961.
Holdings: Over 100 images of San Francisco Chinatown.

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January 18th, 2014