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Title: Chinese New Year celebrations, 1937
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated February 12, 1937 reads, "Celebrating Chinese New Year, a little resident of Los Angeles Chinatown is shown setting off a string of firecrackers to scare away the evil spirits and start the New Year off happily. Young and old alike are celebrating the festive occasion."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095752
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 98.
CARL0005055757
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33086
Subject: Celebrations--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles)
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Firecrackers--California--Los Angeles
Boys--California--Los Angeles
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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