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Title
Interior view of Kong Chew Chinese Temple, Chinatown, November 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
1933-11-01
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an interior view of Kong Chew Chinese Temple, Chinatown, November 1933. The temple is elaborately decorated with Oriental designs and Chinese characters. An altar can be seen at center and has a small table and two benches in front of it. Another table with several vases can be seen in the foreground at right. In the foreground at left, decorative design in the shape of a cylinder hangs on top of a pole held in place by a wooden stand. In the background at left, a large window can be seen.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2187
USC-2-1-1-2248 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35175
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2187
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35175.jpg
Subject
Chinese Americans
Religion
Temples
Kong Chew Temple
Los Angeles--Chinatown
Religious facilities
Time Period
1933-11-01
Place
California
Chinatown
Los Angeles
Ferguson Alley
USA
Source
35175 [Accession number]
CHS-35175 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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