Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1927

Date Created

February 1927

Date

1927-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Little Mary Jane Fong holding a gong stick and standing next to a Chinese lion. The lion was being prepared for the February 5 New Year celebration in Chinatown. (Although it is identified as a dragon in the newspaper article, another photograph taken on the same occasion identifies it as a lion and shows the shorter lion's body, ark no. 21198/zz002d9cvb).
This may be the same Mary Jane Fong featured in two other Los Angeles Times articles: "Little Senorita Fong Believes She's Chinese; Curious Case of a Little Mexican Girl Adopted by a Lonely and Childless Chinese Wife, The Case of Mary Fong" 3/11/1923; and "Newcomers Listed at Orphan's Home," 1/24/1928.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: L.A. Chinatown
Text from newspaper caption: Mary Jane Fong and the Monster [for the Los Angeles Times newspaper article: "Dragon dusted for Parade; Chinese Prepare for New Year's Fete," 2/4/1927]
Handwritten on negative: Mary Jane Fong, Chinese dragon

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Fong, Mary Jane, 1919-

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Events
People
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Entertainment
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles