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Manuscripts
This is a photograph of Chinese or Chinese American members at a Presbyterian Mission in Portland, Oregon. Seated in the middle of the group is likely the pastor.
mssHong Family papers
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Visual Materials
A mounted photograph of Chinese American merchant Seid Back and three other men standing in front of Back's store at 146 Second Street in Portland, Oregon. A sign above the store reads "Seid Back & Co. / General Commission Merchants." The other men are unidentified; two are wearing traditional Chinese clothing. The photographer is also unidentified.
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Manuscripts
This group photograph (most likely for school or church) was taken in Portland, Oregon, and includes Chin Quan Gue (third from right, second row from the bottom) and Mabel Chin (third from right, first row).
mssHong Family papers
Manuscripts
Chin Hing Qong (second from the right, third row from the bottom), Chin Quan Gue (first from the right, second row), and Mabel Chin (first from the right, third row) are part of this portraiture taken in Portland, Oregon. The identity of the rest of the members in the photograph is unknown.
mssHong Family papers
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Visual Materials
A photograph album with 32 photographs of Portland, Oregon, and the surrounding area. Photographs include waterfalls, winter scenes in the countryside, and grazing cows, as well as a portrait of "Princess Wal-lu-lah" which was reproduced in photographer Lee Moorhouse's "Souvenir Album of Noted Indian Photographs" (1905) as "Princess We-a-lole, Cayuse Maiden"; sweeping view of Portland and Mt. Hood; the capsized French 4-masted bark "Asie" at Davidge's Whart in Portland (this ship capsized in December of 1901); the "Needles" (aka "Pillars of Hercules") rock formations that flank the railroad tracks along the Hood River; H. A. MacNeil's bronze statue "Coming of the White Man" in Washington Park in Portland and views of Multnomah Falls in Oregon; and two buildings under construction from the Lewis and Clark Exposition of 1905 (the Agricultural Building and the Oriental Building).
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Manuscripts
This photograph was probably taken at the 20th Biennial Convention of Chinese American Citizens Alliance.
mssHong Family papers
