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Description
Chin Kow was a member of the First Baptist Church Chinese Sunday School in Portland in 1911 when this photo was taken. He often was called "The General" by his friends and customers at his Chinese hand laundry, which he ran until 1966.
About This Item
- Title: Chin Kow, Portland, 1911
- Creator: Reynolds, Gardiner, Maine
- Creation Date: 1911
- Subject Date: 1911
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 23 cm x 15 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2080, Box 5
- Collection: Chinese Americans of Maine collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Chinese Americans--Maine--Portland
- Chinese--United States--Maine--Portland
- Church work with immigrants
- First Baptist Church (Portland, Me.)
- Immigrant children
- Immigrants--United States--Maine--Portland
- Kow, Chin--Portrait photographs
- Laundries--Maine--Portland
- Religious education
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