[Cabinet Card Photograph of a Young Chinese Man]

Healdsburg, Ca: Andrew Price, 1880. Very good.. Cabinet card photograph, 5.25 x 3.75 inches, on a printed studio mount. Minor wear, one small chip to outer edge of photograph. Minor wear to bottom corners of mount. A sharp studio photograph featuring a young Chinese-American man posed in contemporary pleated jacket, plain pants, and shoes, holding a newspaper. The young man is sitting on a small bench, clutching a newspaper, and leaning on a stack of books on a side table. The photograph was produced by Andrew Price of Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California, and printed on his "Russian River Flag" Power Press. The verso of the mount is printed with a listing for a series of photographs by Price called "To, At and From The Geyser Springs, Sonoma County, Cal." The present photograph was not part of said series. The subject of the photograph is not identified, though the photographer was a notable local of Sonoma County. Andrew Price (1843-1919) was an Irish immigrant to the United States who fought in an Ohio regiment during the Civil War. He moved to California in 1873, where he established himself in business variously as a photographer, real estate speculator, and insurance salesman. He also served as Justice of the Peace in Sonoma County and later as the Forest Supervisor of Inyo County.