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Description
View 1 (2011-0791). Music. Chinese in traditional dress, carrying banners -- view 2 (2011-0792). Guards. Chinese escorting carriages with Chinese ladies -- view 3 (2011-1156). Becoming animated. Shows parade, Chinese dragon -- view 4 (2011-1157). Chinese settlement. On verso: "Neg. by A.J.B." -- view 5 (2011-1158). Preparation. Shows assembly of dragon -- view 6 (2011-1159). Music, temple, children. Shows parade of men and children in traditional dress -- view 7 (2011-1160). Joss House. Bok Kai Temple (second), built in 1880 at foot of D Street. On verso: "Neg. by G.H.S." -- view 8 (2011-1161). Resting. Shows dragon and parade in front of Hampton Hardware Co. -- view 9 (2011-1162). Drum. Dragon preceded by men playing drum, carrying decorative staffs, children following parade -- view 10 (2011-1163). Off down the street. Dragon, spectators line street -- view 11 (2011-1164). Shows parade, spectators in foreground -- view 12 (2011-1165). Societies, firemen! Bomb Day (Yee Yeut Yee in Chinese) celebrates the Chinese Water God, Bok Eye. Held annually in second month of Chinese lunar year. Up to 1930 festival, Golden Dragon (Gum Lung or Moo Lung) was part of parade.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
12 photographic prints ; 4 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001442817CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Bok Kai Temple (Marysville, Calif.)--Photographs Bok Kai Festival--Photographs Chinese Americans--California--Marysville--Photographs Chinatowns--California--Marysville.--Photographs Festivals--California--Marysville Parades & processions--California--Marysville Temples--California--Marysville Streets--California--Marysville Marysville (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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