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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.

Abstract The Catholic Chinese Academy collection comprises three scrapbooks containing photographs, correspondence, administrative materials, newspaper clippings, notes, and ephemera from 1939 to 1947. Materials pertain to administration, classes, and special events at the Catholic Chinese Academy of St. Bridget’s Catholic Chinese Center in Chinatown, Los Angeles, California. The Catholic Chinese Academy was also referred to as the Catholic Chinese School. Photographer Pat O’Malley and Sister Mary...

Content Description This collection contains 1 Hollinger box primarily containing photographs, most of which are 35mm slides and as well as approximately 40 prints and negatives, depicting the Old Chinatown and New Chinatown neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The photographs of New Chinatown primarily consist of street scenes, views of buildings in the neighborhood, the Miss Los Angeles Chinatown pageant, and Chinese New Year Parades. Many of the slides are arranged as historical slideshows showing the histories of...

Content Description Collection includes materials relating to the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, Chinese Americans, Los Angeles Chinatown, local organizations, and Asian Americans from the 20th century, primarily in the 1970s-1990s, collected by founder and long-time leader of CHSSC Reverend Paul Louie. This includes organizational and event materials, artifacts, newspaper articles, dissertations, and theses on Chinese Americans written between 1940-80s. This collection also contains...

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Includes paper menus of Chinatown restaurants and Southern California Chinese restaurants.

Abstract The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) and the UCLA Asian Studies Center (AASC) conducted the Southern California Chinese American Oral History Project from 1978 to 1984. They collected 165 oral histories, from which transcripts, summaries, indices, and the book Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women in Los Angeles were made. This collection contains approximately 1700 pages of transcripts and summaries, in English with small amounts...