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Yucho Chow Studio business card - c. 1915
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- Statements of responsibility: Yucho Chow family - Jerome Chow
- Source of title proper: Title taken from collector/curator's digital file title.
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1 business card : raster image (image/jpeg) ; 7845x4610 pixels (26 MiB)
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Yucho Chow Studio was a photography studio established in 1907 by Yucho Chow, a Chinese immigrant who paid the discriminatory Head Tax to enter Canada in 1902. The studio operated out of 68 West Hastings Street from 1907-1908, 5 West Pender Street from 1909-1913, 23 West Pender Street from 1914-1929, and 518 Main Street from 1930-1950. In 1935, a fire in a rooming house next door to the 518 Main location caused extensive damage to the studio. Yucho Chow’s sons Peter and Philip took over the studio following their father’s death in 1949, operating out of 512 Main Street from 1951 to 1986, when the business closed. Yucho Chow welcomed clients from any background, and as such, the studio’s work documents diverse communities that have traditionally been excluded from dominant narratives of Vancouver’s history. The studio’s negatives were destroyed when the business closed, and the majority of existing prints reside in the private collections of the families and organizations that commissioned the photographs.
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Collector/curator’s description reads: “C. 1915, Vancouver. A printed business card for Yucho Chow Studio showing a portrait of the photographer. The card shows the address of 23 West Pender St., which is where the business operated from about 1914-1929.”
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Use is restricted to research, private study and educational purposes based on donor agreement. Reproduction for exhibition, publication or commercial use requires permission from the donating family or organization. Please see archivist for details.
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- Clement, Catherine (Collector)