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Title
Drawing depicting Calle de Los Negros in Los Angeles, later Chinatown, ca.1876
Date Created and/or Issued
1871/1881
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 a drawing depicting Calle de Los Negros (Negro Alley, colloquially referred to as "Nigger Alley" at the time) in Chinatown in Los Angeles, later Chinatown, ca.1876. A set of streetcar rails runs across the fame while a long shop front in the background shows a curved and buckling thatched roof. People stand on the porch, horse-drawn carriages in front of them. A man stands in front of a small shack to the left, which dons an illegible sign above its door.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m2155
USC-1-1-1-2215
USC-1-1-1-10488 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7187
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2155
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7187.jpg
Subject
Chinese Americans
Adobe houses
Los Angeles--Chinatown
Minorities--Chinese
Cities
Time Period
1871/1881
Place
California
Chinatown
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-15-108 [Microfiche number]
7187 [Accession number]
CHS-7187 [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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