print email comment close Oroville Chinese Temple URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/oroville/ Description: "Built in 1863, the Oroville [California] Chinese Temple served as a place of worship for a community of 10,000 Chinese residents." The site contains a collection of historical photographs of the temple and Chinese community of Oroville, and images of cultural artifacts from the temple's collections, including shrines, religious figures, shoes, puppets, and chairs. Also features a brief history of the temple. From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Publisher: University of California, Berkeley Dublin Core Material Type: Collection, Text, Image Library of Congress Subject Headings: Chinese Americans -- California -- History Oroville (Calif.) -- History Temples, Chinese -- California -- Oroville LII Database Information: Record 22106 created by Tom McGibney on 07/15/2006 Last modification on 08/03/2006 Published: 10/01/2009   California Digital Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22106