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...

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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.

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...

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Includes Miss Los Angeles Chinatown program materials sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. Content includes Miss Chinatown events and contestant biographies.

Content Description Contains Munson Kwok's Chinatown Redevelopment Project meeting agendas, meeting minutes, correspondence, meeting notes, subcommittee reports, and project documents. The majority of records are meeting materials for the Chinatown Community Advisory Committee (CCAC) and its subcommittees, Chinese Cultural and Community Center of Greater Los Angeles (CCACC), as well as for the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Majority of documents are English-language documents with some Traditional...

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Contains photocopies of newspaper articles with photographs and a journal issue related to the National Volunteer Activist Award that Wong won in 1979.

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This series is processed at the folder level. Contains articles, including photocopied newspaper articles, a program, planning documents, and an email related to activities and organizations that Wong was involved in including the Reachout Committee for the Los Angeles Music Center, the Chinatown branch of Los Angeles Public Library, and the Friends of the Chinatown Library.

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Contains photocopies of newspaper articles, programs, and a handwritten speech about Wong related to various awards and honors that Wong received herself or that she awarded to others.