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Title: "I am American" day
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Quillen, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Doris Chow, Chinese Queen of "I am American" day, stands at the microphones (one is labeled KFW), addressing the crowd. Miss Chow is wearing an intricately embroidered Chinese cape of birds and trees. Her hair is coiled on each side and studded with ornaments. Photo dated: May 16, 1943.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073275
Harry Quillen Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
A-010-546 4x5; GPC_b81
CARL0000077515
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/120579
Subject: Chow, Doris
Speeches, addresses, etc
Patriotism--United States
Microphones
Festivals--California--Los Angeles
Chinese--Clothing
Beauty contestants--California--Los Angeles
KFWB (Radio station : Hollywood, Calif.)

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