The Cameron House is an iconic place in San Francisco’s Chinatown. It was named after the Scottish missionary, Donaldina Cameron. Cameron came to San Francisco as a Presbyterian missionary in 1895, where she worked at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls. At the time, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act made it illegal for many Chinese immigrants to enter the country. This caused a rise in smuggling young Chinese girls into the country and them selling them into prostitution or slavery. When Cameron eventually became the superintendent of the girls home, she made it her priority to take in these young Chinese girls and save them from this system of human trafficking. Throughout her years at the girls home, Donaldina was credited with saving around 3,000 girls from enslavement and the home was renamed the Donaldina Cameron House in 1942.