Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Little Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion. The lion was being prepared for the February 5 New Year celebration in Chinatown. (Although it is identified as a dragon in the newspaper article, another photograph taken on the same occasion identifies it as a lion and shows the shorter lion's body, ark no. 21198/zz002d9cvb). This may be the same Mary Jane Fong featured in two other Los Angeles Times articles: "Little Senorita Fong Believes She's Chinese; Curious Case of a Little Mexican Girl Adopted by a Lonely and Childless Chinese Wife, The Case of Mary Fong" 3/11/1923; and "Newcomers Listed at Orphan's Home," 1/24/1928. Text from negative sleeve: L.A. Chinatown Text from newspaper caption: Mary Jane Fong and the Monster [for the Los Angeles Times newspaper article: "Dragon dusted for Parade; Chinese Prepare for New Year's Fete," 2/4/1927] Handwritten on negative: Mary Jane Fong, Chinese dragon
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_0171 ark:/21198/zz002d9d0w
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Subject
Events People Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) Entertainment Culture Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles Fong, Mary Jane, 1919-
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