Label Type
Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
Vessel, 1888
Ceramic
Courtesy History San Jose
This vessel survived the 1906 earthquake at the Ng Shing Gung (Temple of the Five Gods) in San Jose’s Heinlenville Chinatown. Heinlenville, one of five Chinatowns in the city, was a center of Chinese-American business and cultural life through the early 20th-century.