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Title
Buildings in China Town, Los Angeles
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1885/1889
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of two-story buildings on a street in China Town, Los Angeles. Covered porches run along the front of both floors of most of the buildings. There is Chinese writing on one building. On the roof, it appears that fish is drying on lines strung between wooden frames.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
1 transparency : b&w
negatives (photographic)
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2160
USC-1-1-1-2220 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-225
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2160
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-225.jpg
Subject
Chinese Americans
Streets
Dwellings
Buildings
Chinese
Los Angeles--Chinatown
Chinese in Los Angeles
Time Period
circa 1885/1889
Place
California
Chinatown
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-230- [Microfiche number]
225 [Accession number]
CHS-225 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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