Chinese New Year Lion Dance in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Chinese New Year Lion Dance in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1928

Date Created

January 1928

Date

1928-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Chinese men, women, and children, some in costume, observe the festivities of the New Year along with Mexicans and Americans.
The lion costume is held up by two men. Smoke rises from several firecrackers strewn on the ground. Behind the lion a group of men watch, two other men standing in front of the lion, mostly obscured by the smoke.
Photograph appears with the article, "Bing, Zing, Boom! Happy New Year," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1928: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES CHINATOWN, CELEBRATIONS, NEW YEAR 1928
Handwritten on negative: CHINESE, LYON. 1928
Text from newspaper caption: Yesterday Was Bad Day For Invisible Devils "Happy New Year!" being said Chinese style down on Apablasa street in Chinatown. The lion doing his annual dance, bringing good luck for the new year and driving any stray devils from the doorstep mid the smoke of booming firecrackers.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Smoke--California--Los Angeles
Lion dance--California--Los Angeles
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Firecrackers--California--Los Angeles
Costumes--Chinese
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles