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U.S. Chinese immigration, 19th century and later.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1890
Chinatown, George Grantham Bain Collection
In the 19th century, a majority of Chinese immigrants were single men who worked for a while and returned home. At first, they were attracted to North America by the gold rush in California. A relatively large group of Chinese immigrated to the United States between the start of the California gold rush in 1849 and 1882, before federal law stopped their immigration. After the gold rush, Chinese immigrants worked as agricultural laborers, on railroad construction crews throughout the West, and in low-paying industrial jobs. Soon, many opened their own businesses such as restaurants, laundries, and other personal service concerns.

With the onset of hard economic times in the 1870s, European immigrants and Americans began to compete for the jobs traditionally reserved for the Chinese. Such competition was accompanied by anti-Chinese sentiment, riots, and pressure, especially in California, for the exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States. The result was the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by Congress in 1882. This Act virtually ended Chinese immigration for nearly a century.
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Town of Locke, Jan Ying Association, 13947 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Jan Ying Association, 13947 Main Street, Locke, Sacrame...

Significance: Tis is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway. It is typical of such structures with similar facades. Survey number: HABS CA-2071-V Nat... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Chinese Workers House, Walker Street, Port Gamble, Kitsap County, WA

Chinese Workers House, Walker Street, Port Gamble, Kitsap County, WA

Survey number: HAER WA-155 Building/structure dates: 1918-1919 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000746

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Block, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Bl...

Survey number: HABS DC-456 Public domain photograph of city center, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Block, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Bl...

Survey number: HABS DC-456 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caricature, The difference between them, public domain cartoon image

Caricature, The difference between them, public domain cartoon image

Caricature showing Irish entering the U.S. with intent to stay and Chinese to stay temporarily. Illus. in: Puck, 1878 May 15, cover, p. 1. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - ALIEN LABOR, CHINESE 1878. This record co... More

The Chinese invasion / J. Keppler.

The Chinese invasion / J. Keppler.

Composite of nine cartoons, each separately captioned, on Chinese immigrants in the United States, including New York City and San Francisco. Illus. in: Puck, vol. 7, no. 158, pp. 24-25.

A trio that must go / F. Graetz.

A trio that must go / F. Graetz.

Print shows a "Church Bell" as a female figure, an injured elephant labeled "Republican Party" with bandages and an eye patch labeled "Nov. 1882", and a Chinese man. Illus. from Puck, v. 14, no. 339, (1883 Sep... More

Celestial wrath / F. Opper. - A book with a cartoon of a man holding a gun

Celestial wrath / F. Opper. - A book with a cartoon of a man holding a...

Print shows startled French soldiers in rice paddies confonting an angry blazing sun rimmed with cannon barrels and bayonets, and stating "Population 500,000,000", also signs labeled "Malaria, Disease, [and] Fe... More

Arnold Genthe - A Chinese boy, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - A Chinese boy, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Three children standing on a sidewalk, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Three children standing on a sidewalk, Chinatown, San ...

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

Arnold Genthe - Their first photograph, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Their first photograph, Chinatown, San Francisco

Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 21. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Mott Street, New York City - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Mott Street, New York City - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from jacket. "2757 G" on negative. Chinatown. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033884. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mott Street, New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Mott Street, New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Chinatown. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018616. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Arnold Genthe - On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco

Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 3. Alternate titles from a similar image in: Pictures of old Chi... More

Arnold Genthe - San Francisco, April 18, 1906

Arnold Genthe - San Francisco, April 18, 1906

Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 120. Purc... More

Chinatown after the shooting - Public domain portrait photograph

Chinatown after the shooting - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Mott Street in Chinatown, New York City. The Church of the Transfiguration, appears in the background (25 Mott Street) and the Port Arthur restaurant was at 7-9 Mott Street. (Source: Flickr Com... More

Made in Mott Street. The rest of New York moves, but Chinatown stays

Made in Mott Street. The rest of New York moves, but Chinatown stays

Composite of types of Chinese and their life-styles. Color halftone repro. of drawing by Raymond C. Ewer. Illus. in: Puck, 1914 Nov. 28, pp. 12-13. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - CHINESE AMERICANS NEW YORK CITY... More

[American Women's Voluntary Services members posed on steps, wearing various AWVS uniforms] / World Telegram photo by Bill Schiff.

[American Women's Voluntary Services members posed on steps, wearing v...

NYWT&S staff photo by Bill Schiff. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.

Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. An American student discussing the Chinese flag with two Chinese delegates

Washington, D.C. International youth assembly. An American student dis...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carol M. Highsmith - Chinatown gate, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carol M. Highsmith - Chinatown gate, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Street in Chinatown district of Chicago, Illinois

Street in Chinatown district of Chicago, Illinois

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More

Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City

Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City

Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More

In Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal., California, 19th century sterescope card.

In Chinatown, San Francisco, Cal., California, 19th century sterescope...

Stereograph showing a group of Chinese men standing outside of local business in Chinatown. H8248 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: The Universal Photo Art. Co. Copyright 1901 by C.H. Graves. No. 5513.

Chicago's Chinatown near S. Wentworth Ave., Chicago, Illinois

Chicago's Chinatown near S. Wentworth Ave., Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-20, scenes of Chinatown near S. Wentworth Ave and 23d St. 17-20, Pui Tak Center (former On Leong Building).

Town of Locke, Jan Ying Association, 13947 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Jan Ying Association, 13947 Main Street, Locke, Sacrame...

Significance: Tis is one of a group of buildings that forms a Main Street facade, each separated by a narrow alleyway. It is typical of such structures with similar facades. Survey number: HABS CA-2071-V Nat... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Block, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Bl...

Survey number: HABS DC-456 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Five boys at New Year's celebration, Chinatown, New York City]

[Five boys at New Year's celebration, Chinatown, New York City]

Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Arnold Genthe - Two little maids from school, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Two little maids from school, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

The Foreign element in New York--the Chinese colony, Mott Street / Drawn by W. Bengough.

The Foreign element in New York--the Chinese colony, Mott Street / Dra...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1896 Feb. 29, p. 209. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Retinue attending Chinese statesman, Li Hung Chang, when he visited Philadelphia]

[Retinue attending Chinese statesman, Li Hung Chang, when he visited P...

Photograph shows Li Hung Chang and another man riding in a horse-drawn carriage with crowds on both sides of the street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No. 549. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the... More

Arnold Genthe - Chinese girl, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Chinese girl, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A Chinese family, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

A Chinese family, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51168". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

Portrait photo of [Chinese] - Public domain portrait photograph

Portrait photo of [Chinese] - Public domain portrait photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Store and restaurant in Chinatown, New York]

[Store and restaurant in Chinatown, New York]

H28272 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Buying fish in the market, Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif.

Arnold Genthe - Buying fish in the market, Chinatown, San Francisco, C...

Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson (International Stereograph Co.). No. 30557. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; Street vendors; Shelf.

Chinatown, George Grantham Bain Collection

Chinatown, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows street scene in front of Cafe Mandarin, 11-13 Doyers Street, Chinatown, New York City. Sign at upper right is for the Morning Star Mission, 17 Doyers Street. Sign at lower right is for the Resc... More

"Birthday party" postcard, San Francisco, California

"Birthday party" postcard, San Francisco, California

Photograph shows Chinese children posed with a birthday cake, probably in San Francisco, California. Photo copyrighted by Mr. & Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens, San Francisco, Calif. Wong Sun Yue and Ella May Clemen... More

Lee Ying, Chinese cigar maker - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lee Ying, Chinese cigar maker - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Street in Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Street in Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. After delivering the captain's laundry, this Chinese messboy aboard a British vessel will have his first visit in New York. He is one of a number of Chinese seamen who were recently permitted shore leave for the first time in the United States under wartime conditions

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the top tourist attraction... More

Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City

Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City

Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More

The Chinatown Gateway, an outdoor paifang and sculpture that serves as an entrance to Old Town Chinatown in Portland, Oregon

The Chinatown Gateway, an outdoor paifang and sculpture that serves as...

Architect Yu Tang Wang and artist Sun Chau completed the gate's design, which was built in Taiwan. It was then shipped to Portland and dedicated in 1986. The structure was the largest of its kind in the United ... More

View of Chinatown; Fishing on Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois

View of Chinatown; Fishing on Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-10, scenes of Korean and other Asian shops and organizations in Chi... More

Chinese Music Club, 211-B West Cermac Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Chinese Music Club, 211-B West Cermac Rd., Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-3, shrine to Chinese god of music in headquarters of Chinese Music ... More

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions society / J.S. Pughe.

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions soc...

Illustration shows a meeting in a Chinese mission where a collection is being taken up, "Contributions received here to save the foreign devils", with 5 vignettes showing how the United States is viewed by the ... More

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions society / J.S. Pughe.

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions soc...

Illustration shows a meeting in a Chinese mission where a collection is being taken up, "Contributions received here to save the foreign devils", with 5 vignettes showing how the United States is viewed by the ... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

But the hands that were played by that heathen Chinee [sic] ... / Hull.

But the hands that were played by that heathen Chinee [sic] ... / Hull...

Cartoon showing Chinese-American man and two other men playing cards. Copyright by Western News Co. No. 5.

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Block, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Bl...

Survey number: HABS DC-456 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Town of Locke, Joe Shoong Chinese School, 13920 Main Street, Locke, Sacramento County, CA

Town of Locke, Joe Shoong Chinese School, 13920 Main Street, Locke, Sa...

Significance: This one-story, wooden frame structure was built in 1915 as the National Park Hall. It later served as a Chinese school, and today is often used for public meetings. Survey number: HABS CA-2071-... More

Arnold Genthe - In front of the Joss House, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - In front of the Joss House, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

Arnold Genthe - A corner on the hillside, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - A corner on the hillside, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

Small boy standing in front of a door, Chinatown, San Francisco

Small boy standing in front of a door, Chinatown, San Francisco

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquak... More

Arnold Genthe - His first cigar, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - His first cigar, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Public domain photograph - portrait, children of 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - A slave girl in holiday attire, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - A slave girl in holiday attire, Chinatown, San Francis...

Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 123. Alternate title from a similar image in: Pictures of old Ch... More

Arnold Genthe - Carrying New Year's presents, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Carrying New Year's presents, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

Arnold Genthe - Young girl walking down a street, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Young girl walking down a street, Chinatown, San Franc...

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. vd image reversed 2/96

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