Chinatown: Tin How Temple

The cards on this page show Tin How Temple ("joss house") on Waverly Place, including both pre-quake and post-quake images.

The image on these cards shows pre-quake Tin How Temple at 33 Waverly Place. An earlier Unknown publisher 39 dated 8/03/1901 has the correct caption "Exterior of Chinese Joss House"; the caption "Chinese Restaurant" on two of these cards is incorrect.

Unknown publisher 31, private mailing card, postmarked SF 10/07/1904. The caption "Chinese Restaurant" is incorrect. A variant Unknown publisher 31 postmarked SF 12/05/1903 shows the same image, with message noting that the writer had supper in the restaurant the previous night; presumably the writer misidentifies the location.
Unknown publisher 31, private mailing card, addressed but not mailed; same image / stock number / caption but landscape rather than portrait.
Weidner 593, same pre-quake image on post-quake postcard. Another example is postmarked SF 7/dd/1909.

Souvenir Post Card 4634, pre-quake Willard Worden photo © 1906, uncredited here. Emporium 4634 uses the same image and stock number.
Souvenir Post Card 4634, same stock number and image with added post-quake caption. The post-quake caption correctly notes that the temple was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake/fire, but of course "Leaving nothing but Hole, 100 ft Deep" is pure sensationalism. Another example of this card is postmarked SF 2/26/1907.
Müller 514. The same image appears in b+w Müller 14.

Pre-quake Tin How Temple also appears in an Arnold Genthe photo.

These linen era cards show post-quake Tin How Temple (same location, now 125 Waverly Place) exterior and interior. The top floor also appears on Unknown publisher RPPC.