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Title: Looking East, Chinatown on Broadway, Los Angeles. 2299.
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1939]
Publication Information: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Quillen, copyright
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2005-0150
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO.: LOS ANGELES: CHINESE QUARTER
View of the East Gate into New Chinatown's Central Plaza from Broadway Street (celebration of New Chinatown, June 25, 1938; completion of East Gate June 25, 1939; constructed by H.C. Hong); shows ornate gate, four character poem representing maternal virtues, tile roof; Yee Hung Guey restaurant building at left, automobiles parked at curbside in foreground. Los Angeles; ca. 1938.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print as a postcard ; 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001386467CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9745
Subject: Plazas--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Gates--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place: California
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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