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Title: Neon study for You Chung Hong buildings, Chinatown, Los Angeles
Creator: Electrical Products Corp
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
1937
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Architecture, Design, and Planning
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Artwork of proposed neon lighting design on building for You Chung Hong, Chinatown, Los Angeles. Airbrush and colored pencil and gouache on black paper attached to board.
This is one in a group of drawings and other artwork 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.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: Pencil and gouache on board ; sheet: 16 x 25 1/2 inches; 41 x 65 cm
Identifier: archHong, Folder 6
180308
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll13/id/25473
Language: English
Subject: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Architecture--California--Los Angeles
Chinese Americans--California--Los Angeles--History
Hong, You Chung, 1898-1977
Neon lighting
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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