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Title: Chinese New Year percussionists and revelers in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1928
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Chinese men, women, and children, some in costume, observe the festivities of the New Year along with Mexicans and Americans.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Bing, Zing, Boom! Happy New Year," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1928: A1.
A group of Chinese men walk down the street, two of the men playing symbols and another playing a large drum.
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES CHINATOWN, CELEBRATIONS, NEW YEAR 1928
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5853
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Marching percussion--California--Los Angeles
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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