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This photographic postcard depicts a joss house, or Chinese temple, in Evanston, Wyoming. It was built in 1894 and destroyed by fire in 1922. The temple served as the spiritual and cultural center of Evanston's small Chinese community, which was primarily composed of railroad workers recruited by the Union Pacific Railroad and miners from the nearby Almy coal mines.
photPF 26049
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Seven cabinet card photographs of buildings and streets in San Francisco, including the Chinese Joss House and St. Lewis Alley, Chinatown. Also two photographs of Hotel Brockway, Lake Tahoe; one cabinet card of a wooden Catholic church and bungalow with priest standing in front, El Rio, California.
photPF 630-639
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A set of photographs by I. W. Tabor of various locales associated with Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel, Ramona, consisting of a group portrait of laborers sheering sheep and views of Rancho Camulos in the Santa Clara River Valley, California, including images of the ranch house exterior and courtyard, old olive mill, wine vaults, fountain, gardens and fruit groves, and the surrounding hills and landscape. Some photographs include individuals, presumably members of the Del Valle family, who owned the ranch.
photPF 20157-20167
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Eye-level view of a dirt street with the Los Angeles County Courthouse in background and the one-story adobe Bilderrain (also spelled Belderrain) residence on New High Street and Temple in Los Angeles, California.
photPF 24900
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View of a line of men carrying a Chinese Dragon during the La Fiesta parade on South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the storefront of the Ville de Paris (221 South Broadway) behind a crowd of spectators.
photCL 555
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9 cabinet cards depicting decorated floats moving through the streets of Los Angeles, California, for the La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade in 1895 and 1896, including images of horse-drawn coaches and wagons decorated with flowers and carrying participants, often groups of women with parasols. Parade floats include one holding children wearing long beards and dressed in traditional Chinese costume; a scene of Spanish mission bells; and another includes an equestrian on horseback. Photographs accompanied by a metal pin engraved with the text "La Fiesta 1896" and a scene of a float, a sombrero labeled "Los Angeles" and two shaking hands.
photPF 20247-20256