Heading: (California - San Francisco)
Author:
Title: Photograph of a joss house in San Francisco's Chinatown
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1880
Description:

Albumen photograph. 20.5x15.7 cm (8x6¼").

Rare photograph of a joss house, or temple, in San Francisco's Chinatown. There is a photograph of this building in the Roy D. Graves collection at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, credited to Isiah W. Taber, identifying it as a joss house. This photograph might well be earlier, with a wood plank sidewalk in front and a few other details that are different, though it is clearly the same building. Old name inked on verso, Clara Mayer Kundt, possibly.

Some light creasing and a bit of fading; verso tape repair at upper left corner; very good.