Reddit reviews Sunset City and Sunset Scenes (California Midwinter Exposition)

This is the Chinese exhibit. There's a description of it in this very expensive book from the official photographer, Isaiah Taber. As it happens, John McLaren (after whom McLaren Park is named) wasn't a terrible fan of the fair and its effect on GG Park. He had almost all the buildings dynamited or demolished.

An interesting but unrelated story from the news at the time goes, in part:

> But what the Government officers are worried about is the rumor that each of the Chinese returning will carry with him a certificate of registration as a laborer under the McCreary act, and that sooner or later all the certificates so carried away will return with a Chinese attached who will be landed. For one of the actors at the Midwinter Fair to change his silk garments for the coarse blouse of a workman, to shave his head just a half inch more across the crown, and with a little India ink to make a mole or two as distinguishing marks is an easy task. Then he comes down and registers as Ah Bang, a gardener from across the bay, and getting his certificate takes it home with him. To a countryman in China about his height and age the actor sells his laborer's certificate and the purchaser proceeds to duplicate with India ink the distinguishing marks called for by the paper. It is not a hard task for one Chinese to personate another, the race resemblance being so strong that reputable white men have time and again gone upon the stand and under oath positively identified a Chinese who later on proved to be an impostor.

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