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: Chinese men, women, and children, some in costume, observe the festivities of the New Year along with Mexicans and Americans.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Bing, Zing, Boom! Happy New Year," Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 1928: A1.
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: Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Chinese New Year--California--Los Angeles
Marching percussion--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
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights contact: UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country: US
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .