Photographer Arnold Genthe (1869-1942)

Originally trained as a classical scholar, Genthe came to San Francisco in 1895, from Germany, to work as a tutor in classical philology to the eldest son of the Baron and Baroness von Schroeder. He taught himself photography while walking the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown (1895 - 1906). After his photographs became a success in the local magazines, he established his own studio specializing in portraits of prominent locals and visiting celebrities. His photographs of Greta Garbo got her a job with a motion picture company whose executives had seen her only as a "blond Swede type."

Tea Rose was one of the "yellow slave trade" girls rescued by Donaldina Cameron (Cameron House in San Francisco), who was 25 years old when she began her missionary work in Chinatown.