A hand-tinted studio portrait of four young Chinese children seated in a row on ornate carved wooden chairs, wearing traditional embroidered jackets, tunics and caps in green, yellow, blue and pink. The card is numbered 56 in a publisher's view series and was issued by Edward H. Mitchell of San Francisco, a prolific producer of Western and Pacific Coast view cards in the early 20th century. Such studio genre portraits of Chinese American children were popular souvenir subjects in the years around 1905.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
A Happy New Year
to Charlie Hitz from
Millie
Dec 26-1905
White border; hand-tinted photographic image with visible screen texture; handwritten New Year greeting in the right margin.
Postmark: DEL MONTE CAL DEC 26 6 AM 1905 (also a receiving cancel at lower left: AMESBURY MASS JAN 3 8 AM 1906). Undivided back with printed "THIS SIDE IS FOR THE ADDRESS"; 1¢ green Franklin stamp; light edge/corner wear and slight toning.
Cite this card
Chinese children in traditional dress, studio portrait, circa 1905, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/chinese-children-in-traditional-dress-studio-portrait-circa. Accessed October 25, 2026.
