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Includes materials from LA Chinatown restaurant advertising materials, such as flyers and business cards, and souvenirs.

Abstract The China City Collection contains materials related to historical information on China City, a Chinese-themed tourist attraction between 1938 and 1949 located in Los Angeles, between Main, Spring, and Macy (now Caesar Chavez) streets. China City was a project proposed by Christine Sterling in 1933. The proposed city of booths and stalls along narrow winding streets, similar to the Olvera Street Mexican market, was intended to be located two blocks north of the Old Plaza. Nicknamed Chinese...

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Contains various menus, takeaway pamphlets, and flyers from Chinese and Chinese American restaurants, bakeries, and cafes in Los Angeles. Also contains a small apron from Far East Cafe, matchbooks, and a poster board with a business directory.

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Includes business directory books and booklets of Chinese businesses primarily in Los Angeles. Content also includes Chinese businesses primarily in California and the wider United States. The books contain information about business locations in Canada and Latin America of that time.

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Includes Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles guidebook publications of New Year celebrations in Chinatown, Chinatown New Year Celebration event schedule, Chinese art and culture articles, and business advertisers.

Scope and Contents Includes Chinese Chamber of Commerce Los Angeles yearbooks from 1974 to 2016. Serials in this series also include "Souvenir Programs" and "Souvenir Books". Content includes greetings from government officials, Chinese Chamber of Commerce services, industry overviews, business resources and directories, Miss LA Chinatown activities and events, Golden Dragon Parade, and other Chinatown events and activities. Distinction between this series and the "Guidebooks" Series was made due to the time...

Content Description Periodicals that are about or related to Chinese and Chinese Americans and are unrelated to any other collection, including magazines, newsletters, and newspapers. Periodicals includes Bakery magazine, China and the Chinese, Echo of Things Chinese magazine, Cricket, National Palace Museum newsletter, Rice magazine, Taiwan Newsletter, Happiness Pictorial Monthly, and an edition of the Los Angeles Times that is in Chinese language about Tiananmen Square. Although majority of periodicals...

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Contains text materials published by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles and/or referencing the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. This collection includes books, directories, booklets, guidebooks, and program schedules of Chinese American events and businesses of Los Angeles. The majority of the collection consists of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Yearbooks, Miss Los Angeles Chinatown Programs, and Chinese business directories.

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This collection includes documents, periodicals, publications, photographs, and artifacts that were collected by Lily Lum Chan related to her community advocacy and organizational work, anti-Communist China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) political activism, her family such as her father Walter U Lum and her husband Stanley Chan, and her personal records and items.

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Includes Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles event programs. Includes the Golden Years Chinatown's 50th Anniversary Celebration, New Chinatown 75th Diamon Anniversary, and the 1990 Chinese Moon Festival. Other organizations evolved in these events include the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, the Los Angeles Chinatown Corporation, Chinatown Merchants Association, and the Chinese Cultural and Community Center of Greater Los Angeles.