Photographs can play a key role in sorting out the madness of cultural encounter at the turn of the last century, when immigrants, migrants, and settlers found themselves together in American port cities. Anthony W. Lee, professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College, looks at pictures of San Francisco’s notorious opium dens and shows how they can be mined for the various meanings the dens held for visitors. In so doing, he also reveals the tense and sometimes comic encounters that took place underground.

This presentation is followed by a Q&A with the speaker and the audience.

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