Rear office and bedroom, Chew Kee Store. abacus, mortar and pestle, carved wooden stamps, Western courtship and marriage postcards

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Contributor:: Malone, Patrick M. (photographer)
Genre:: photographs
Subject:: Fiddletown (Calif.)
Local ID:: 004_ex_lec_01
Extent:: 1 photograph; 2.2 x 3.3 cm.

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Abstract:: The Chew Kee Store is a Chinese rammed earth structure established as an herb shop in 1855. The store provided groceries and medicinal herbs to the Chinese community of Fiddletown, CA in the 1800s. It is one of only four remnants of the once thriving Chinese community of Fiddletown.

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"Rear office and bedroom, Chew Kee Store. abacus, mortar and pestle, carved wooden stamps, Western courtship and marriage postcards" Technology: Material Culture in the Built Environment. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:89089/

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Technology: Material Culture in the Built Environment

Images collected by Pat Malone over the years.
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