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.

строительство интерьеров в калифорнии здания в Сан-Франциско Храмы императора Гуаня в США Гуань Юй в искусстве иллюстрации китайского квартала сан франциско interiors of religious buildings in the united states religious buildings in california Сан-Франциско в 1870-х годах Тихоокеанский турист 1879 книжные иллюстрации высокое разрешение изображения из интернет-архива Сан-Фанциско Калифорния

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