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Title
East Elevation facing Broadway, Buildings for Mr. You Chung Hong, Los Angeles Chinatown
Creator
Webster, Erle, 1898-1971, architect
Wilson, Adrian, 1898-1988, architect
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
1937
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Architecture, Design, and Planning
Rights Information
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Description
This is one in a group of drawings by architects Erle Webster & Adrian Wilson made for the rebuilding of Los Angeles’ New Chinatown (1936-40s). In the mid-1930s, all of Old Chinatown was torn down to make way for Union Station. Many of the displaced families and businesses went to the nearby 900 block of North Broadway and developed New Chinatown. The drawings by Webster & Wilson show the development of this historic area of Los Angeles through survey records, street plans and drawings for buildings for Y. C. Hong.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
Pencil and crayon on trace paper ; support: 17 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches ; 45 x 34.5 cm.
Identifier
archHong, Folder 1 (1)
176791
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll13/id/25475
Language
English
Subject
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Architecture--California--Los Angeles
Chinese Americans--California--Los Angeles--History
Hong, You Chung, 1898-1977
Architectural drawings. (gmgpc)
Place
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Roger S. Hong Collection, 1936-2001 (bulk 1960-1995).
Architecture, Design, and Planning, Huntington Digital Library.

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