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Title
Row of chairs inside the Kong Chew Chinese Temple in Los Angeles's Chinatown, November 1, 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 a row of chairs inside the Kong Chew Chinese Temple in Los Angeles's Chinatown, November 1, 1933. The row of carved wooden chairs can be seen against the wall at right. Several tall, narrow posters can be seen on the wall behind the chairs and all bear lines of Chinese characters. In the foreground at left, a counter can be seen. The sides are decorated with carvings of animals, and several vases with flowers in them can be seen on the countertop.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2184
USC-2-1-1-2245 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35179
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2184
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35179.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
35179 [Accession number]
CHS-35179 [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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