• Fig. 19. Lon Chaney demonstrating the fishskin method. The photo appears in “Lon Chaney’s Make-up,” Photoplay XXI, no. 4 (March 1922): 43. From the author’s personal archive.

Lon Chaney demonstrating the fishskin method.

From Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era by Esther Kim Lee

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