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This collection includes photographs, some featuring Los Angeles dignitaries, from the 1970s to 1980s, and news clippings. Also included is an interview conducted by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California with Herbert and Josephine Turchi, who were early pupils of the school.

Abstract Ella Yee Quan was an educator in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as an active community leader in numerous educational, civic, and cultural groups. In 1975, she helped found the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC), where she would later serve as president. This collection includes Quan's personal records, including class photographs from her time teaching at Castelar Elementary School; artifacts belonging to her herbalist grandfather, Yee Wah Yee;...