This image by California photographer I.W. Taber was taken in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1886. The wealth of the Chinese community at the time can be seen in the sumptuous furnishings, including a hardwood opium bed, that were shipped all the way from China in order to make these opium smokers' experience as luxurious as any they could have found back home.
the World History Journal
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