Progressive Era: 1890–1920s: Immigration Period of Restrictions
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Chinese Joss House, San Francisco, CA. 1875. John James Reilly, photographer. Albumen stereograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.
This is a photograph of an interior room of the Chinese Joss House in San Francisco, California. A joss house is a place for worshipping the variety of indigenous Chinese shen, or deities, ancestors and saints from Chinese folk religion.