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Title: Seventeen-year-old victim of assault Catherine Wong, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1936
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 War Feared," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan 1936: A6.
Vincent Dong Hule was brought into police custody after 17-year-old Catherine Wong accused him of an attack, but was released due to lack of sufficient evidence.
Wearing a large coat and sitting on the edge of a table, Catherine Wong stares intently into the camera.
Text from negative sleeve: 3396, Katherine Wong (Chinese rape case), 1/?/36, [stamped:] Jan 29 1936.
Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Catherine Wong, 17 years of age, whose assertion she was attacked give rise to police fears of tang war.
Handwritten on negative: Katherine Wong
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12381
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Young adults--California--Chinatown
Crimes--California--Chinatown
Wong, Catherine, b. 1918 or 19
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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