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Title
Old Chinatown street where buildings are slated for demolition, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of an old Chinatown street where buildings are slated for demolition, 1939. The street extends from the left foreground to the right distance. A long, brick building stands at center two-stories tall. The glass of the doors and windows has busted out. Awnings still reach over the balconies of the second floor.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2162
USC-1-1-1-2222 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41456
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2162
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41456.jpg
Subject
Chinese Americans
Streets
Wrecking
Los Angeles--Chinatown
Buildings
Time Period
1939
Place
California
Chinatown
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41456 [Accession number]
CHS-41456 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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