The Pacific tourist (1879) (14761430395)

Identifier: pacifictourist1879will (find matches)

Title: The Pacific tourist - Illustrated Trans-Continental Guide of Travel, edited by Williams, Henry T, New York

Year: 1876 (1870s)

Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E

Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel

Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams

Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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palsas any other. The teniple on .JarkMifi Street b drotc(l tothe worship of Mil i :often, in pit«Mi* l<»i»«-». *• ^ .o,.i il,.in a tm tii tmothers voi .uul. will but great f. of h.r i sliH o;ienetl h> r ni h lo from herilream; but in » t f , 1.- . . . .1.1of other, • ;;„. t t In o»mtoa to Ar«» Tai. the p-l wl w.4r. ll M ill t: • the Kong Cho\» .\\hiu).anii ha.» • if A M*>(arinc

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TMS ^aCIFIC TOl-^iilST. 319 it a room for .aiiRf.strul worship. The aHyluiiilias a hirji^e hall lor tlic public iiieetiiipi ul theci>iii;xiiiy. The straiigtT in San Fr:iiici.sii;K)iit StifK, ifno otliei-s. The (.lay Stn-ct hxs t^iktfii away xiiiu-ol tilt tiiiscl that loiintrly adoini-)! thfitnuun J>u-lK)iit StrtHt, and is the most fdaboral*-, havingcost about ^^iO,OIK), and isdedicat<-d tothi; woi^hipof Kwaii Tai, and thin saiin- j^od o«;(:upi*,<4 Uiccentral pliu;*^ in the DujMtnt Stnu-t TfUiple. H<. is th« iiHul jHtfiuldr of all tht- ^ods, aiul imaUraij.t red-faced, with a long, hhu-k ht-ard. On tin; walls of every t<inple and altout theentranct.s ar»» sfen red phu-anls—the n-nords ofthe .1,ift.s uiaile for lisliin)jand sup;Kjrtin)j it.Jlif Hi-atlitii Chinef, unlike tln! AnuricanChristians, who a/irtii/s jfive their alms in secret,connect merit and woiship with these ijilts, some-times burnin&

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Added by Commons editors: This appears to be an image of a chinese temple to Guan Yu (kwai tai), in San Francisco, though the text is heavily garbled from scan. this source, [1], confirms this is a temple in san francisco, though the text doesnt refer to this image specifically.

Gebäudeinnenräume in Kalifornien Gebäude in San Francisco Kaiser-Guan-Tempel in den Vereinigten Staaten Guan Yu in der Kunst Illustrationen von Chinatown San Francisco Innenräume religiöser Gebäude in den Vereinigten Staaten religiöse Gebäude in Kalifornien San Francisco in den 1870er Jahren Der pazifische Tourist 1879 Buchillustrationen hohe Auflösung Bilder aus dem Internetarchiv san fancisco Kalifornien

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