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Title
Apablasa Street, Old Chinatown, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
View of a Chinese man crossing the street in front of a row of two story-brick attached buildings with balconies in the 300 block of Apablasa Street in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles, with a sign for the "Mon Chong & Co." store at 341 Apablasa Street. Some of the balconies have awnings and decorative fretwork, as well as potted plants. The headquarters of the Bing Kong Tong Society was located at 337 1/2 Apablasa Street.
"Headquarters of Bing Kong Tong in Los Angeles" and "1915"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. Title, location, and date devised by cataloger based on information from donor Ernest Marquez. For a later photograph of the same buildings see: photCL 502 (34) and photCL 502 (35).
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; sheet 19.2 x 23.7 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17664
Subject
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Chinese Americans
Storefronts
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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