[GH85Carrera]

Chinese worker at the Selby Lead and Silver Smelting Works ca. 1880. This facility was located at California's Bay Area just south of Vallejo. An 1886 edition of the San Francisco Examiner stated "At the Selby Smelting Works at Vallejo Junction 160 men are employed, and wages average about $2 a day. The force is divided into gangs of 80 each, and one works in the daytime and the other at night."