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Title
Willie Soo Hoo and a cat
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Quillen, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1942
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
Willie Soo Hoo, wearing his Boy Scouts' uniform, Troupe 718, holds a fat tabby on top of a decorative elephant stand. The group is posing in front of the doors to the Forbidden Palace Restaurant in New Chinatown.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00073271
Harry Quillen Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
A-010-536 4x5; Organizations-Boy Scouts; GPC_b81
CARL0000076920
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/120520
Subject
Soo Hoo, Willie
Forbidden Palace Restaurant (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Restaurants--California--Chinatown (Los Angeles)
Boy Scouts--California--Los Angeles
Cats
Animal sculpture
Sculpture, Chinese
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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