Chinese New Year percussionists and revelers in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Chinese New Year percussionists and revelers in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: January 1928
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Bing, Zing, Boom! Happy New Year," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1928: A1.
Chinese men, women, and children, some in costume, observe the festivities of the New Year along with Mexicans and Americans.
A group of Chinese men walk down the street, two of the men playing symbols and another playing a large drum.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: LOS ANGELES CHINATOWN, CELEBRATIONS, NEW YEAR 1928

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Marching percussion--California--Los Angeles
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_5853
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cvzf3
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Rights Country: US
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