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Title: Chinese New Year Lion Dance 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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Bing, Zing, Boom! Happy New Year," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1928: A1.
Men of different races walk alongside the man sporting the lion costume.
Chinese men, women, and children, some in costume, observe the festivities of the New Year along with Mexicans and others.
Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES CHINATOWN, CELEBRATIONS, NEW YEAR 1928
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5857
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lion dance--California--Los Angeles
Costumes--Chinese
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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