Genre: news photographs / Resource Type: still image / Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Wishing pool tourists in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Tourists view the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing pool designed by Prof. Liu Hong Kay in Chinatown, Los Angeles, which are artistic renderings of an actual scenic spot in Guangdong province.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Old Chinatown billboard, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A billboard announces the revival of Old Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese temple in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A woman visits a Chinese shrine in a Chinatown temple, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sailors at a bar in Chinatown, 1942.

Description:: Photographed left to right are recent U.S. Navy recruits Dave Lee, Clarence Yey, Kenny Cheung, and Wong-sut Chao.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dragon costume for New Year festivities in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Two Chinese American women put the final touches on a dragon costume for New Year parades and festivies in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.).
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Aerial view of New Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Aerial view of New Chinatown, Los Angeles following its relocation and renewal north of the Union Station area.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Moon festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Chinese American children carry lanterns in a Moon Festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dragon parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Chinese Americans prepare the dragon costume for a parade through the streets of Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four Families Association building in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Exterior view of the Lung Kong Tin Yee (Four Families) Association Building, a community-based aid and services organization in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Preparing for New Year festivities in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A Chinese American man posts festive posters for the New Year celebration in Chinatown, Los Angeles
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Medicine shop in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: An herbalist uses his mortar and pestle in a medicine shop on North Broadway Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fortune teller in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A woman consults a Chinese fortune teller in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: View of a walkway on North Broadway Street in "New" Chinatown, Los Angeles following the move from the Union Station area.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Community center balcony in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: The balcony of a community center in Chinatown, Los Angeles, decorated with flags.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Two boys sell treats on a busy sidewalk in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Interior view of a Chinatown shop, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: A woman purchases goods at a gift shop in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Four Families Association building in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Interior view of the Lung Kong Tin Yee (Four Families) Association Building, a community-based aid and services organization in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese funeral in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: The funeral in Los Angeles Chinatown of Lew Sing Kai.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wishing pool in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1939

Description:: View of the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing pool designed by Prof. Liu Hong Kay in Chinatown, Los Angeles, which are artistic renderings of an actual scenic spot in Guangdong province.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Painting a signpost in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A shop employee paints the signpost on his storefront in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dragon costume in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Chinese women prepare a dragon costume for a parade.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chinese funeral in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A Chinese funeral procession on a street in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Fortune teller booth in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: Patrons line up outside the street booth of Charlie Chan, the fortune telling bird in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Sailors at a bar in Chinatown. A. 1942.

Description:: Photographed left to right are recent U.S. Navy recruits Dave Lee, Clarence Yey, Kenny Cheung, and Wong-sut Chao.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Rickshaw driver and passenger in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A rickshaw driver and his passenger pose for a photographer on North Spring Street, China City, the "New" Chinatown in Los Angeles following the move from the Union Station area.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wishing pool in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: View of the Seven Star Sacred Caverns and wishing pool designed by Prof. Liu Hong Kay in Chinatown, Los Angeles, which are artistic renderings of an actual scenic spot in Guangdong province.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Chop Suey restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: An exterior view of the Chinese restaurant Tuey Far Low, located at 436 Gin Ling Way in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Interior of a Chinese temple in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Kites in a Chinatown shop, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Madame Chuey Sung, T.B. Chu Jr., and Madame Shan Wa Chan display Chinese kites in a Chinatown, Los Angeles shop.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Preparing an ancestral shrine in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Four women prepare an interior shrine in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Identifying names are illegibly handwritten on the negative.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: A woman stops to purchase treats from two boys on a busy sidewalk in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Moon festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Chinese American children carry lanterns in a Moon Festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Interior view of a busy restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Santa Claus greets children as they line up for the Christmas party hosted by Bozzani Motor Company, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:: Children line up in front of the Bozzani Motor Company while attending the dealership's annual Christmas party. A wide sidewalk passes across the foreground. A couple children stand near camera at right. Farther back, at center, a Santa Claus stands facing camera. Behind him, children form a line. The line enters the dealership, off-center to the left, and stretches across the image towards the right. A few police officers stand on the near side of the line. The dealership's facade extends across the background.
Date:: [circa December 24, 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Street scene of Old Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: April 7, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Shopkeeper in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: April 7, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Haing S. Ngor on balcony overlooking downtown Los Angeles, Calif., 1988

Date:: February 15, 1988
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Melcon, Mel
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Memorial procession for Sun Yat-sen in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: On a street in Chinatown, an automobile adorned with wreaths and banners bearing messages in Chinese in the memorial procession honoring Sun Yat-sen. Men walk beside the car, one holding a pot of flowers. Wide banners are carried in front of and behind the car. Reported in "MEMORY OF SUN YAT SEN IS HONORED: Local Colony of Chinese Gather for Service in Tribute to Leader," Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 1925: A3.
Date:: April 12, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Memorial procession for Sun Yat-sen in Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: On a street in Chinatown, an automobile adorned with wreaths and banners bearing messages in Chinese in the memorial procession honoring Sun Yat-sen. Men walk beside the car, one holding a pot of flowers and one holding a banner in front. Reported in "MEMORY OF SUN YAT SEN IS HONORED: Local Colony of Chinese Gather for Service in Tribute to Leader," Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 1925: A3.
Date:: April 12, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Tom Mah with two other men, Chinatown (Los Angeles), 1920-1930

Description:: Tom Mah flanked by 2 men at a train station.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Old Chinatown merchant Dick W. Le, Los Angeles, Calif., 1946

Date:: November 8, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Esther and George Wong, proprietors of Chinatown's Madame Wong's in Los Angeles, Calif., 1979

Date:: May 27, 1979
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Chamberlin, Bob
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

F. See On, in his importing store in "Old Chinatown" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1946

Date:: November 8, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek speaks at a rally in Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: May 3, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Street scene of Old Chinatown, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: June 27, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Seventeen-year-old victim of assault Catherine Wong, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Chinatown War Feared," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan 1936: A6.
Date:: January 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection