Image / Old Chinatown billboard, Los Angeles (Calif.)

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Title: Old Chinatown billboard, Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: A billboard announces the revival of Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.
The decision by the City of Los Angeles to build Union Station in Old Chinatown forced Chinese Americans to relocate north and west of the original Chinatown to New Chinatown, located between Spring and Main Streets near downtown Los Angeles.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb867nb5nt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Economy
Urban renewal
Chinese American neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles
Business
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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