Chinese shrimping village - Revision history

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2023-04-28T05:38:20Z

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	[[Image:Chinese-village-at-South-Foot-by-Matilda-F-Mott-c-1859-CHS-collection.jpg]]		[[Image:Chinese-village-at-South-Foot-by-Matilda-F-Mott-c-1859-CHS-collection.jpg]]

	'''Chinese shrimping village at southern foot of Rincon Hill, c. 1859.'''		'''Chinese shrimping village at southern foot of [[Rincon Hill\|Rincon Hill]], c. 1859.'''

	''Painting by Matilda F. Mott, courtesy California Historical Society''		''Painting by Matilda F. Mott, courtesy California Historical Society''

Ccarlsson at 06:20, 3 April 2023

2023-04-03T06:20:32Z

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	''Photo: Online Library of California''		''Photo: Online Library of California''

			[[Image:South San Francisco 1866 Long Bridge WA-16 View north towards Long Bridge from Hunters Point towards Point San Quentin-Mission Bay Houses, berthed boats; man, woman and child sitting F810 WA-016 GGNRA-Behrman GOGA 35346 wnp71.2239.jpg\|792px]]

			'''View northwest in 1866 across mouth of Islais Creek marshes with southern part of Long Bridge crossing from Potrero Point to Hunters Point. Chinese shrimpers' abodes, ships, and nets are clearly visible along the shoreline in this photo. '''

			''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp71.2239; GGNRA/Behrman GOGA 35346''

	[[Image:Health dept closes shrimp village April 30 1939 wnp28.0777.jpg\|756px]]		[[Image:Health dept closes shrimp village April 30 1939 wnp28.0777.jpg\|756px]]
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	A community of Chinese shrimp fishermen made their home along the shores of India Basin on Hunter's Point until 1939, when the U.S. Navy took over the land under eminent domain for the [[Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard\|Naval Shipyard]]. The Health Department came in and burned the shacks and docks that once provided a small village of fishermen and their families a steady living in the abundant shrimp harvest from the San Francisco Bay.		A community of Chinese shrimp fishermen made their home along the shores of India Basin on Hunter's Point until 1939, when the U.S. Navy took over the land under eminent domain for the [[Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard\|Naval Shipyard]]. The Health Department came in and burned the shacks and docks that once provided a small village of fishermen and their families a steady living in the abundant shrimp harvest from the San Francisco Bay.

			But that was not the first time the Health Department had come in and destroyed the livelihood of Hunter's Point shrimpers. The "Butchers' Reservation" was established in the Islais Creek marshes further west in the 1870s and by the 1890s new public health concerns with microscopic threats to public hygiene led to allegations that "Butchertown shrimp" were contaminated with ptomaine—a bacteria-produced protein laden in the tons of waste emanating from the slaughterhouses every day.

			In 1899, the city's health officer, accompanied by the city's chemist and police officers, and a small brigade of Health Department inspectors invaded the Chinese encampment along the slopes of Hunter's Point and condemned and set fire to 15,000 pounds of shrimp. (Months later, the city's Board of Health admitted on page 7 of the ''San Francisco Call'' that the shrimp were not "germ-ridden" after all.)

	[[Image:Health dept burns Chinese shrimping village wnp28.0778.jpg\|756px]]		[[Image:Health dept burns Chinese shrimping village wnp28.0778.jpg\|756px]]
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	''Painting by Matilda F. Mott, courtesy California Historical Society''		''Painting by Matilda F. Mott, courtesy California Historical Society''

			Along the shores of Hunter's Point Chinese shrimpers lived and worked one of the most fertile shrimping beds in the San Francisco bay. Chinese San Franciscans had dominated the shrimping industry in the region since the 1870s. By 1895 the 5.4 million pounds of shrimp harvested in the Bay Area—almost entirely by Chinese fishermen—was second only to the Bay Area oyster industry in market value and tonnage.

			<blockquote>The Chinese “shrimp camps” that appeared in the 1870s were more than just work environments. Shrimp farmers often lived alongside the shores where they worked—sometimes in the very same structures. In some ways, the spatial isolation of these camps probably offered refuge for Chinese men, away from a discriminatory landscape downtown. To outsiders, however, the lives and work environments of Chinese shrimpers were improper. Not only did Chinese men live in the same places they worked in substandard conditions, but—even more shocking to white observers—Chinese men used their bare feet and wooden shoes to separate meat from the shells. Adding to white hostility, most of the shrimp were exported to China, where their meat was sold as inexpensive food and their pulverized shells as fertilizer. This export economy angered many whites, who saw the natural bounty of the bay sold away to China for the profit of the Chinese immigrants and merchants. To white observers, the whole operation was backwards.

			—Excerpted from ''Animal City: The Domestication of America'' by Andrew Robichaud, Harvard University Press: 2019</blockquote>

	[[Image:Chinese shrimp worker c 1910 wnp4.1290.jpg\|450px]]		[[Image:Chinese shrimp worker c 1910 wnp4.1290.jpg\|450px]]
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	[[Hunters Point Mid-1990s\|Prev. Document]] [[SF's Southern Edge\|Next Document]]		[[Hunters Point Mid-1990s\|Prev. Document]] [[SF's Southern Edge\|Next Document]]

	[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:Chinese]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:Food]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1870s]]		[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:Chinese]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:Food]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1870s]] [[category:1890s]]

Ccarlsson: added new image

2023-01-01T04:24:17Z

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	''Collage depicting a Chinese shrimping village at Rincon Point by [[Satty and the "North Beach U-Boat"\|Satty]], from "Visions of Frisco" edited by Walter Medeiros, Regent Press 2007''		''Collage depicting a Chinese shrimping village at Rincon Point by [[Satty and the "North Beach U-Boat"\|Satty]], from "Visions of Frisco" edited by Walter Medeiros, Regent Press 2007''

			[[Image:Chinese-village-at-South-Foot-by-Matilda-F-Mott-c-1859-CHS-collection.jpg]]

			'''Chinese shrimping village at southern foot of Rincon Hill, c. 1859.'''

			''Painting by Matilda F. Mott, courtesy California Historical Society''

	[[Image:Chinese shrimp worker c 1910 wnp4.1290.jpg\|450px]]		[[Image:Chinese shrimp worker c 1910 wnp4.1290.jpg\|450px]]

Ccarlsson: added photos

2020-05-06T03:07:34Z

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	''Photo: China Camp State Park''		''Photo: China Camp State Park''

			[[Image:Chinese-shrimpers hb0489n3gc-FID4.jpg]]

			'''Chinese shrimpers on San Francisco Bay, c. 1938'''

			''Photo: Online Library of California''

	[[Image:Health dept closes shrimp village April 30 1939 wnp28.0777.jpg\|756px]]		[[Image:Health dept closes shrimp village April 30 1939 wnp28.0777.jpg\|756px]]
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	[[Image:April-5-1939-shrimp-camp-closure.jpg]]		[[Image:April-5-1939-shrimp-camp-closure.jpg]]

			[[Image:Chinese-fishermen-in-SF-Bay-Harpers-1875 hb1j49n4jt-FID4.jpg]]

			'''Chinese fishermen in San Francisco Bay, 1875.'''

			''Image: Harper's Magazine''

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	[[Hunters Point Mid-1990s\|Prev. Document]] [[SF's Southern Edge\|Next Document]]		[[Hunters Point Mid-1990s\|Prev. Document]] [[SF's Southern Edge\|Next Document]]

	[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:Chinese]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:Food]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:1920s]]		[[category:Bayview/Hunter's Point]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:Chinese]] [[category:Ecology]] [[category:Food]] [[category:1910s]] [[category:1920s]] [[category:1870s]]

Ccarlsson at 22:17, 26 October 2017

2017-10-26T22:17:01Z

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	'''<font face = ~~arial light~~> <font color = maroon> <font size = 3>~~Unfinished History~~</font></font> </font>'''		'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''

			''by Chris Carlsson (with a hat tip to David Gallagher)''

	[[Image:White-buyers-at-HP-shrimp-dock 2837.jpg]]		[[Image:White-buyers-at-HP-shrimp-dock 2837.jpg]]

Ccarlsson at 22:15, 26 October 2017

2017-10-26T22:15:01Z

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	''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''		''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''

			[[Image:Shrimp-camps-April-21-1939-sf-chron.jpg]]

			[[Image:No shrimp today wnp28.0779.jpg\|756px]]

			''' 'No Shrimp Today' sign after last days of shrimp sales at Hunter's Point camp, April 1939.'''

			''Photos: courtesy private collector at [http://www.OpenSFHistory.org OpenSFHistory]''

			[[Image:April-5-1939-shrimp-camp-closure.jpg]]

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Ccarlsson: added new photos

2017-10-26T21:50:49Z

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	''Photo: China Camp State Park''		''Photo: China Camp State Park''

	A community of Chinese shrimp fishermen made their home along the shores of India Basin on Hunter's Point until ~~1938~~, when the U.S. Navy took over the land under eminent domain for the [[Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard\|Naval Shipyard]]. The ~~Fire~~ Department came in and burned the shacks and docks that once provided a small village of fishermen and their families a steady living in the abundant shrimp harvest from the San Francisco Bay.		[[Image:Health dept closes shrimp village April 30 1939 wnp28.0777.jpg\|756px]]

			'''The Chinese shrimping camp along the shores of India Basin on Hunter's Point just before its destruction in 1939.'''

			''Photo: courtesy private collector at [http://www.OpenSFHistory.org OpenSFHistory]''

			A community of Chinese shrimp fishermen made their home along the shores of India Basin on Hunter's Point until 1939, when the U.S. Navy took over the land under eminent domain for the [[Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard\|Naval Shipyard]]. The Health Department came in and burned the shacks and docks that once provided a small village of fishermen and their families a steady living in the abundant shrimp harvest from the San Francisco Bay.

			[[Image:Health dept burns Chinese shrimping village wnp28.0778.jpg\|756px]]

			'''Health Department burns Chinese shrimping village along shores of India Basin at Hunter's Point, April 20, 1939.'''

			''Photo: courtesy private collector at [http://www.OpenSFHistory.org OpenSFHistory]''

	From the beginnings of San Francisco's urban growth, Chinese immigrants established fishing villages around the Bay. The southern shores of San Francisco at Hunter's Point was one, but there were others too, especially at China Camp (Point San Pedro) in Marin County and directly east across the Bay at Point Pinole near Richmond. This map shows where they were in the 1880s:		From the beginnings of San Francisco's urban growth, Chinese immigrants established fishing villages around the Bay. The southern shores of San Francisco at Hunter's Point was one, but there were others too, especially at China Camp (Point San Pedro) in Marin County and directly east across the Bay at Point Pinole near Richmond. This map shows where they were in the 1880s:
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	''Collage depicting a Chinese shrimping village at Rincon Point by [[Satty and the "North Beach U-Boat"\|Satty]], from "Visions of Frisco" edited by Walter Medeiros, Regent Press 2007''		''Collage depicting a Chinese shrimping village at Rincon Point by [[Satty and the "North Beach U-Boat"\|Satty]], from "Visions of Frisco" edited by Walter Medeiros, Regent Press 2007''

	[[Image:~~bayvwhp$shrimper-with-wheelbarrow~~.jpg]]		[[Image:Chinese shrimp worker c 1910 wnp4.1290.jpg\|450px]]

			'''Chinese shrimper, c. 1910.'''

			''Photos: courtesy private collector at [http://www.OpenSFHistory.org OpenSFHistory]''

	~~'''~~Chinese shrimper.~~'''~~		[[Image:Chinese shrimper sweeping shrimp c 1910 wnp4.1291.jpg\|756px]]

	''~~Photos: Private Collection~~, ~~San Francisco, CA~~''		'''Sweeping shrimp, c. 1910.'''

	[[Image:Shrimp-baskets-and-fisherfolk 2836.jpg]]		[[Image:Shrimp-baskets-and-fisherfolk 2836.jpg]]
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	[[Image:bayvwhp$shrimp-village-burns.jpg]]		[[Image:bayvwhp$shrimp-village-burns.jpg]]

	'''In ~~1938~~ the ~~Fire~~ Department burned the remaining structures to make way for the Navy.'''		'''In 1939 the Health Department burned the remaining structures to make way for the Navy.'''

	''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''		''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''

Lisaruth at 22:05, 31 October 2016

2016-10-31T22:05:01Z

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	[[Image:HP-shrimp-camps-map-orig 2832.jpg]]		[[Image:HP-shrimp-camps-map-orig 2832.jpg]]

	''~~'Map:~~ For full map and extensive description of shrimping visit the Division of Fish and Game of California document on the [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3f59n68z&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text California Shrimp Industry].'''		''For full map and extensive description of shrimping visit the Division of Fish and Game of California document on the [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3f59n68z&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text California Shrimp Industry].'''

	Here are the statistics of San Francisco Bay shrimp production from 1915-1930, in the original Fish & Game table below:		Here are the statistics of San Francisco Bay shrimp production from 1915-1930, in the original Fish & Game table below:

Lisaruth: added link to full map for shrimp camps

2016-10-31T21:57:51Z

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	[[Image:HP-shrimp-camps-map-orig 2832.jpg]]		[[Image:HP-shrimp-camps-map-orig 2832.jpg]]

			'''Map: For full map and extensive description of shrimping visit the Division of Fish and Game of California document on the [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3f59n68z&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text California Shrimp Industry].'''

	Here are the statistics of San Francisco Bay shrimp production from 1915-1930, in the original Fish & Game table below:		Here are the statistics of San Francisco Bay shrimp production from 1915-1930, in the original Fish & Game table below:
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			''Image: China Camp State Park''

	[[Image:SF-Bay-Shrimp-Junks-explanation-and-display 2839.jpg\|720px\|thumb]]		[[Image:SF-Bay-Shrimp-Junks-explanation-and-display 2839.jpg\|720px\|thumb]]

	'''Image: China Camp State Park''		''Image: China Camp State Park''

	[[Image:bayvwhp$shrimp-village-burns.jpg]]		[[Image:bayvwhp$shrimp-village-burns.jpg]]

Lisaruth: changed images to "private collection"

2014-03-11T22:19:40Z

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	'''Chinese shrimper.'''		'''Chinese shrimper.'''

	''Photos: ~~Greg Gaar~~ Collection, San Francisco, CA''		''Photos: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''

	[[Image:Shrimp-baskets-and-fisherfolk 2836.jpg]]		[[Image:Shrimp-baskets-and-fisherfolk 2836.jpg]]
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	'''In 1938 the Fire Department burned the remaining structures to make way for the Navy.'''		'''In 1938 the Fire Department burned the remaining structures to make way for the Navy.'''

	''Photo: ~~Greg Gaar~~ Collection, San Francisco, CA''		''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''