Name/Title
Interior, Tin How Temple (Joss House), Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif.Entry/Object ID
CHSA-04366Scope and Content
Color. Photo. SF; Joss House: Inside a joss house with 3 women with coiffed hair with a man in blue standing with their hands together in front of a table with 3 fat vases surrounded by ornate engraved wood and Chinese lanterns hanging on the ceiling.
Front: Caption: "Interior, Tin How Temple (Joss House), Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif. 65." "Californians, Inc. Photo; 5A-H2620." Back: Info. Text: "Joss House San Francisco, Interior view of Tin How Temple, the oldest Chinese Joss House in the United States. Its handsome oriental carvings, vases, teak, ebony and color settings are hard to visualize. Its altar, shrines and golden scrolls adorning the walls are truly expressive of Oriental religious devotion." Publisher: Stanley A. Plitz Company. San Francisco Calif." Postcard Number: 65.