Content Description This collection contains 176 photographic prints of 76 unique images taken by L.T. Holman Gotchy, as well as postcards by Gotchy and other unknown photographers, featuring buildings, streets, and residents of Old Chinatown area in Los Angeles. The collection includes photographs taken by Gotchy between 1938 and 1959 and reproduction photographs taken between 1876 and the 1930s by unknown photographers. The photographs capture the exteriors and signage of local businesses such as Jin Hing...

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...