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. The lion costume is held up by two men. Smoke rises from several firecrackers strewn on the ground. Behind the lion a group of men watch, two other men standing in front of the lion, mostly obscured by the smoke. Photograph appears with the article, "Bing, Zing, Boom! Happy New Year," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1928: A1. Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES CHINATOWN, CELEBRATIONS, NEW YEAR 1928 Handwritten on negative: CHINESE, LYON. 1928 Text from newspaper caption: Yesterday Was Bad Day For Invisible Devils "Happy New Year!" being said Chinese style down on Apablasa street in Chinatown. The lion doing his annual dance, bringing good luck for the new year and driving any stray devils from the doorstep mid the smoke of booming firecrackers.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5855 ark:/21198/zz002cvzh4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Smoke--California--Los Angeles Lion dance--California--Los Angeles Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) Firecrackers--California--Los Angeles Costumes--Chinese Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
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