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Title: Chinese Quarter, Los Angeles
Creator: Ellis & Son (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1882
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Elevated view of the dirt road, horse-drawn wagons, and storefronts along the Calle de los Negros (also known as "Nigger Alley") in Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California, with a sign for "J. Kennedy" in the shape of a horseshoe at right.
"Chinese Quarter, Los Angeles"--text, handwritten note on verso. "Ellis & Son landscape photographers and Los Angeles, Cal. P.O. Box No. 200"--text, printed on item. Title transcribed from note on verso. Date supplied by cataloger based on date provided for copy of this image in the C.C. Pierce Collection of Photographs in the Huntington Library (photCL Pierce 01375). See related item photCL_555_01_115 for a similar image. Light green mount.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 9.9 x 17.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16999
Subject: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Business districts
Streets
Photographs. (aat)
Stereographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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