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Group of Chinese-American percussionists play during the Chinese New Year celebration while surrounded by a crowd, Los Angeles, 1924

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Title: Group of Chinese-American percussionists play during the Chinese New Year celebration while surrounded by a crowd, Los Angeles, 1924
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa February 7, 1924]
1924-02-07
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A group of 4-5, young, Chinese-American men are grouped together at center and look to the camera as they play a variety of percussion instruments. The leftmost young man beats a floor drum decorated with Chinese characters. At the center of the group, another man crouches low to the ground while playing cymbals. The man to the right of him holds a small gong. Rightmost, a man in a white, ceremonial outfit also holds cymbals. Another young man behind him is dressed in the same garb. Between the floor drum player and the crouching cymbal player, a man stands with crossed arms. A large crowd surrounds this group and everyone appears to look to camera. People wrap around the group along the left edge of the image. A rope extends in front of the spectators standing behind the group at right. Storefronts line the background at left and recede back as they extend towards center. A sign at left reads: "[GR]OCERY CO. [Chinese characters] 512."
Possibly related to the article, “CHINESE NEW YEAR CLIMAX: Homes of Los Angeles Orientals Purged of Evil for Another Year in Fantastic Ceremony,” Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 1924: A1
Handwritten on negative: Chinese New Year band
Handwritten text from negative sleeve: L.A. Chinatown. celebration New Year 1924
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5867
ark:/21198/zz002cvzxb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Percussion instruments--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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