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Title
Exterior view of a Chinese gift shop on Mei-Ling Way in Los Angeles's Chinatown, 1948
Date Created and/or Issued
1948
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 exterior view of a Chinese gift shop on Mei-Ling Way in Los Angeles's Chinatown, 1948. The two-story building can be seen at right. A five-story tower can be seen on the corner of the building at left. The roof of the structure is covered with terracotta tiles, and several large rectangular windows are visible as well. A dark-colored automobile can be seen parked on a street in the foreground at left. In the background at left, another large Oriental-style building with a tile roof is visible. Photoprint reads: "window where E(?) & C proposed.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
17 x 13 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2137
USC-0-1-1-2197 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41454
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2137
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41454.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Chinatown
Streets
Buildings
Chinese Americans
Time Period
1948
Place
California
Chinatown
Los Angeles
Mei-Ling Way
USA
Source
41454 [Accession number]
CHS-41454 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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