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Hazel Quock and Warren Wong work on their Chinese lesson at the Chung Wah public school in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Hazel Quock and Warren Wong work on their Chinese lesson at the Chung Wah public school in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [January 5, 1936]
1936-01-05
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Chinatown Pupils Study Father's Native Tongue," Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 1936: 2.
Hazel Quock stands beside Warren Wong, seated at a desk, as they study Chinese. They were students at the Chung Wah Public School whose principal was Stanford-graduate P. K. Leung.
Text from newspaper caption: Hazel Quock, 13 years of age, shown receiving a few pointers from Warren Wong, 14, in their Chinese lesson for the day. It is the Chung Wah public school in old Chinatown.
Handwritten on negative: Warren Wonge age 14 Hazel Quock (age 13)
Text from negative sleeve: 3204. Hazel Quock (age 13) Warren Wong (age 14) Chinese American born learn Chinese. Jan/36.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12080
ark:/21198/zz002h82hm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: School children--California--Los Angeles
Wong, Warren, $d, b. 1921 or 22
Quock, Hazel, 1922 or 23
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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