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Title
Chinese New Year celebrations, 1941
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1941
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated January 27, 1941 reads, "This study of two patriarchs show how most of the Chinese welcome the New Year - they make a lot of noise with their odd musical instruments. At left is Chung Fook, with a flute, and at right, Luke Chan, with a fiddle."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00095756
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 98.
CARL0005055761
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33092
Subject
Celebrations--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles)
Musical instruments--California--Los Angeles
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Musicians--California--Los Angeles
Chinese--Clothing--California--Los Angeles
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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