Joss House
Photograph
Negretti & Zambra
English, 1850–ca. 1999
Joss House
1858–1859
Albumen silver prints with applied color
Image (each): 3 1/16 × 2 15/16 in. (7.7 × 7.5 cm)
Mount: 7 1/4 × 6 7/8 in. (18.4 × 17.4 cm)
Museum accession
1981.8338.0002
Inscriptions Printed in ink on mount verso, C: VIEWS IN CHINA. \ 27 \ CANTON. \ Joss House. \ This view is taken from the locality called teh Centre Gate. A considerable \ damage was done to this Joss House during the bombardment, but it suffered \ most by the act of one of teh Braves, who, thinking the building occupied by some \ of the Barbarians, sought to distinguish himself by throwing a bag of gunpowder \ into the interior; the explosion that ensued demolished a great portion of the \ edifice. \ ENT. STA. HALL \ DÉPOSÉ
