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Title
Exterior view of the Chee Kung Tong Co. building on Marchessault Street in Los Angeles's Chinatown, ca.1933
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1933
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 an exterior view of the Chee Kung Tong Co. building on Marchessault Street in Los Angeles's Chinatown, ca.1933. The two-story brick building can be seen at left. It has a long wooden balcony on its second floor, while several doorways are visible on the first. The words "Chee Kung Tong Co." appear near the roof of the building at left. Several more two-story brick buildings can be seen in the background at right. A wide dirt road runs from the foreground at left into the distance at right. The offices of the Hoy Sun Ning Yung Benevolent Association can be seen on the first floor at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m21078 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-35157
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m21078
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-35157.jpg
Subject
Buildings
Chinese Americans
Charities
Hoy Sun Ning Yung
Los Angeles--Chinatown
Time Period
circa 1933
Place
California
Chinatown
Los Angeles
Marchessault Street
USA
Source
35157 [Accession number]
CHS-35157 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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